Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

I Do The Very Best I Know How - The Very Best I Can; And I Mean To Keep On Doing So Until The End.

We Should Be Too Big To Take Offense And Too Noble To Give It.

If This Is Coffee, Please Bring Me Some Tea; But If This Is Tea, Please Bring Me Some Coffee.

My Dream Is Of A Place And A Time Where America Will Once Again Be Seen As The Last Best Hope Of Earth.

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.

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.

Some Day I Shall Be President.

If Once You Forfeit The Confidence Of Your Fellow-citizens, You Can Never Regain Their Respect And Esteem.

Let The People On Both Sides Keep Their Self-possession, And Just As Other Clouds Have Cleared Away In Due Time, So Will This, And This Great Nation Shall Continue To Prosper As Before.

A Capacity, And Taste, For Reading Gives Access To Whatever Has Already Been Discovered By Others.

I Believe It Is Universally Understood And Acknowledged That All Men Will Ever Act Correctly, Unless They Have A Motive To Do Otherwise.

Books Serve To Show A Man That Those Original Thoughts Of His Aren't Very New At All.

Nearly All Men Can Stand Adversity, But If You Want To Test A Man's Character, Give Him Power.

Tact Is The Ability To Describe Others As They See Themselves.

If There Is Anything That A Man Can Do Well, I Say Let Him Do It. Give Him A Chance.

Government Of The People, By The People, For The People, Shall Not Perish From The Earth.

As I Would Not Be A Slave, So I Would Not Be A Master. This Expresses My Idea Of Democracy.

What Kills A Skunk Is The Publicity It Gives Itself.

I Care Not Much For A Man's Religion Whose Dog And Cat Are Not The Better For It.

If I Were Two-faced, Would I Be Wearing This One?

I Don't Like That Man. I Must Get To Know Him Better.

How Many Legs Does A Dog Have If You Call His Tail A Leg? Four. Saying That A Tail Is A Leg Doesn't Make It A Leg.

Every One Desires To Live Long, But No One Would Be Old.

The Dogmas Of The Quiet Past Are Inadequate To The Stormy Present. The Occasion Is Piled High With Difficulty, And We Must Rise With The Occasion. As Our Case Is New, So We Must Think Anew And Act Anew.

My Great Concern Is Not Whether You Have Failed, But Whether You Are Content With Your Failure.

Whatever You Are, Be A Good One.

The Best Way To Get A Bad Law Repealed Is To Enforce It Strictly.

I Can Make More Generals, But Horses Cost Money.

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.

Important Principles May, And Must, Be Inflexible.

Marriage Is Neither Heaven Nor Hell, It Is Simply Purgatory.

Discourage Litigation. Persuade Your Neighbors To Compromise Whenever You Can. As A Peacemaker The Lawyer Has Superior Opportunity Of Being A Good Man. There Will Still Be Business Enough.

I Have Always Found That Mercy Bears Richer Fruits Than Strict Justice.

The Things I Want To Know Are In Books; My Best Friend Is The Man Who'll Get Me A Book I Ain't Read.

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.

Better To Remain Silent And Be Thought A Fool Than To Speak Out And Remove All Doubt.

If We Could First Know Where We Are, And Whither We Are Tending, We Could Then Better Judge What To Do, And How To Do It.

Public Sentiment Is Everything. With Public Sentiment, Nothing Can Fail. Without It, Nothing Can Succeed.

Knavery And Flattery Are Blood Relations.

Ballots Are The Rightful And Peaceful Successors To Bullets.

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.

As Our Case Is New, We Must Think And Act Anew.

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.

Everybody Likes A Compliment.

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.

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. How Far I Shall Succeed In Gratifying This Ambition Is Yet To Be Developed.

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. How Far I Shall Succeed In Gratifying This Ambition Is Yet To Be Developed.

To Give Victory To The Right, Not Bloody Bullets, But Peaceful Ballots Only, Are Necessary.

Sir, My Concern Is Not Whether God Is On Our Side; My Greatest Concern Is To Be On God's Side, For God Is Always Right.