Quotes
Quotes - Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
