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

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  • I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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  • I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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  • I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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  • If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.
    Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 5 December 1859
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  • If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
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  • If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
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  • If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
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  • If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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  • If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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  • If there is anything that a man can do and do it well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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  • If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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  • If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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  • If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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  • Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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  • In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
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  • In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
    Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862
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  • In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
    Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864
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  • In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
    Speech Chicago, december 1856
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  • Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
    First Inaugural Address (1861)
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  • It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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