Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln


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.
Abraham Lincoln


Some day I shall be President.
Abraham Lincoln


Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln


Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln


Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln


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


That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln


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


The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln


The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln


The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln


The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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


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.
Abraham Lincoln


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


The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln


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


The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln


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.
Abraham Lincoln


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.
Abraham Lincoln