Abraham Lincoln quotes

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln

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.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- 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

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
- 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 stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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