“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
― 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