Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quote

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.
Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln

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

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln


To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln


To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln


Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln


We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln


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


What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln


Whatever you are, be a good one.
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


When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln


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


When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln