Abraham Lincoln Quotes – Page 5
Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Freedom and Life
“The written word may be man’s greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”
Abraham Lincoln
“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”
Abraham Lincoln
“Writing is the great invention of the world.”
Abraham Lincoln
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth”
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
“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A house divided cannot stand.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch anything on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I was a little cross. I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper, I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”
Abraham Lincoln
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.”
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Politics and Humor
“Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”
Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,
“But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”
“Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”
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
“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”
Abraham Lincoln
“To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”
Abraham Lincoln
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power. … But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. (“A National Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer.” Proclamation March 30, 1863)”
Abraham Lincoln
Don’t worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.”
Abraham Lincoln
“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Abraham Lincoln
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
Abraham Lincoln
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”
Abraham Lincoln
“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress
July 4th, 1861”
Abraham Lincoln
“The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress
July 4th, 1861”
Abraham Lincoln
“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.”July 4th, 1861”
Abraham Lincoln
“Too big to cry too young to laugh…”
Abraham Lincoln
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”July 4th, 1861”
Abraham Lincoln
“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and Other Speeches
“To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all – but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Everybody likes compliment.”
Abraham Lincoln
“…but let us judge not that we be not judged.”
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s Inaugurals, the Emancipation Proclamation
