Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln

Government, Save, Allow

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln

Act, Concert, Generally

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln

Peaceful, Bullets, Ballots

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

End, Friend, Lost

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

Religion, Care, Dog

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

Strong, Him, Anyone

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

Coffee, Bring, Tea

I want it said of me 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

Best, Thought, Said

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln

Heart, Help, Criticize

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Fighting, Act

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln

Important, May, Principles

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

Hope, Forward, Country

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

Matter, Growing, Tall

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, Future

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Art, Greatest, Person

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

Faith, End, Understand

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

Concerned, Grandson

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

Best, Hope, Freedom

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Act, Anew, Case

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

Men, Liberty, Around

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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

Time, Thinking, Him

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing, Everything, Succeed

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

Business, Him, Give

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Live, Through

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12, 1809

Died: April 15, 1865

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