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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Life, End, Years

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, America, Will

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

Funny, Good, Liar

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Hope, Mother, Angel

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

Best, Time, Hope

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Future, Responsibility

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness, Happy, Minds

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln

Strength, Feet, Stand

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

Tree, Me, Down

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Government, People, Exercise

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

Funny, Coffee, Tea

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Power, Adversity, Character

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

Character, Tree, Reputation

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

Time, Fool, People

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Fool, Thought, Speak

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, Constitution, People

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

Truth, Great, People

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Good, Whatever, You

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

Life, Mother, My Life

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln

Worry, Recognition, Strive

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

Light, Win, Live

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Politics, Stronger, Bullet

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Funny, See, Themselves

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

Experience, Vices, Been

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, God, Long

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Failure, Great, Content

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12, 1809

Died: April 15, 1865

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was a tall, well-spoken, self-taught lawyer who freed the slaves. He was known as... Read full biography