Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

American statesman

Lived from: 1809 - 1865

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 february 1809 Died: 15 april 1865

  • But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
  • I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
  • All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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  • If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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  • And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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  • He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
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  • ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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  • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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  • Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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  • Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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  • Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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  • Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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  • I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
    Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864
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  • I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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  • If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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  • If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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  • It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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  • It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
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  • Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
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  • Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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  • Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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What are the most famous quotes from Abraham Lincoln?

The two most famous quotes from Abraham Lincoln are:

  • "If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
  • "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

When did Abraham Lincoln live?

Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 and died in the year 1865.