Abraham Lincoln quotes

Abraham Lincoln

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln
Me Tree Will Down First
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
Abraham Lincoln
People Government Earth Shall
"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
Truth Great People I Am
"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
Light I Am Win True
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
Today Future You Tomorrow Escape
"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
God Always Right Sir
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg."
Abraham Lincoln
You Dog Saying Legs
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
Funny Good Man Liar Memory
"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
Abraham Lincoln
Best End Know Doing
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness Happy Up Most
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln
Hope I Am Angel Mother Mother's Day
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln
Shadow Character Tree Reputation
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
Abraham Lincoln
Man Better Know Like
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln
Strength You Feet Stand Place
"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
Fruit Never Independent First
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom Time Die Nation
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln
God Long Freedom Who
"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
People Men Constitution Who
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Abraham Lincoln
Education Government Generation Will
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln
You Great Failure Your Concern
"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
History Past New Rise
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
Abraham Lincoln
Funny Me Coffee Tea
"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
People Government Country Grow
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln
Politics Stronger Than Ballot Bullet
"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
Abraham Lincoln
Work God History Nation
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln
Experience Who Virtues Been
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
Abraham Lincoln
Good Religion Feel Bad Feel Good
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln
Day Chance Will Come
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Abraham Lincoln
Walk I Am Never Back
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Abraham Lincoln
Justice Always Mercy Fruits Than
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."
Abraham Lincoln
You Worry Worthy Strive
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship Enemies Friends Destroy
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
Abraham Lincoln
Success Mind Always Succeed More
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
Abraham Lincoln
Man Will Proud See
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
Abraham Lincoln
Path Genius Beaten Unexplored
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy Slave Master Would Idea
"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
Abraham Lincoln
Heart Who Right Help
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln
Best Law Legal Way
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Abraham Lincoln
Equality Men New Liberty
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
Abraham Lincoln
Best Hope Patriotism Time America
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
Abraham Lincoln
Constitution Anything Must Only
"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
Struggle Believe Support Us
"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
Abraham Lincoln
Good Man Government Enough Without
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
Abraham Lincoln
Work Violence Who Safe
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Abraham Lincoln
Funny Would Wearing Were
"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
Equality Power Men Others
"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
Abraham Lincoln
Faith Duty End Right
"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
Abraham Lincoln
Marriage Hell Heaven Simply Neither
"It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe."
Abraham Lincoln
People Country Happy Free

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