He was the 16th president of the United States, who guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history, the Civil War. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president. He is remembered for his involvement in the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at about 10:15 P.M., while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre, President Lincoln was shot in the back of his head.
– Abraham Lincoln Quotes-
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
~ Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln
Everybody likes a compliment.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Public opinion in this country is everything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
