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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Total quotes: 119
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”
— Abraham Lincoln, One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity
Tagged: Personality, Impressions, Empathy
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
— Abraham Lincoln, via Amazon
Tagged: Silence, Ignorance
“Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Lawyers, Honesty, Judgment
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Freedom, God
“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Restraint, Silence
“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Turnabout
“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Right And Wrong
“Abraham Lincoln is my nam[e]
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both hast and speed
and left it here for fools to read”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Poetry
“Military glory, — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Military, War, Blood, rainbow
“All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: God, Black Americans
“I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Christians, prayer
“I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Constitution, Public Servant
“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Genius, Adventurousness
“We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Civil War, Wisdom, God
“The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Russia, Autocrats, Slavery
“The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Slave-Owners, Slave-Traders, Slave-Breeders
“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Religion, atheism, Scoffing
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Fate, Destiny
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Conservatism
“You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Abolitionism
“Whatever Spiteful fools may Say —
Each jealous, ranting yelper —
No woman ever played the whore
Unless She had a man to help her.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Poetry, seduction, Spiteful, Jealous, Whore
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: God's Will
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Lookism, looks
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Public Sentiment, Popular Opinion
“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: character, Reputation, Analogies, Metaphors
“The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Struggle, War, Justice
“In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Bible, savior, God
“I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Debate
“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: White House
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Capitalism, Exploitation
“If we could first know where we are and whether we are ready, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.”
— Abraham Lincoln, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Perspective
“I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life. And yet, there is very little in it, if you will allow no feelings of discouragement to seize and prey upon you.”
— Abraham Lincoln, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Will
“[Grant] takes what troops we can safely give him... and does the best with what he's got.”
— Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
“But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it cannot be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Emancipation Proclamation, Law
“Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Peace, War, Hopefulness
“Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses—I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Whigs, Missouri Compromise, Politics, elections
“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
Tagged: Passion, Reason, defense
“Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind, all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail!”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Reason, Temptation, Temperance
“Then came the Black-Hawk war; and I was elected a Captain of Volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Blackhawk War
“I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Patriotism
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