Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quotes. Below is a collection of famous Abraham Lincoln quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by Abraham Lincoln. Share these quotations with your friends and family.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

By Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

By Abraham Lincoln
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.

By Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

By Abraham Lincoln
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

By Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

By Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

By Abraham Lincoln
Work, work, work, is the main thing.

By Abraham Lincoln
Yet in all our rejoicing let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us.

By Abraham Lincoln
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; an...

By Abraham Lincoln
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advance I now have ...

By Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it no...

By Abraham Lincoln
There were some schools, so called [in my youth]; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond 'readin, writin, and cipherin,' ...

By Abraham Lincoln
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than o...

By Abraham Lincoln
The meeting, in spite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one of the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination, I shall be 'fix...

By Abraham Lincoln
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with int...

By Abraham Lincoln
Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool ...

By Abraham Lincoln
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future t...

By Abraham Lincoln
Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, would tell him th...

By Abraham Lincoln
Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

By Abraham Lincoln
Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace whic...

By Abraham Lincoln
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

By Abraham Lincoln
My old Father used to have a saying that 'If you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter'; and it occurs to me, that if the bargain you have ju...

By Abraham Lincoln
It is with deep grief that I learn of the death of your kind and brave Father; and, especially, that it is affecting your young heart beyond w...

By Abraham Lincoln
It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless b...

By Abraham Lincoln
In the hope that it may be no intrusion upon the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address you this tribute to the memory of my yo...

By Abraham Lincoln
In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here, is scarcely less than your own.

By Abraham Lincoln
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now,...

By Abraham Lincoln
I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms, And feel (companion of the dead) I'm living in the tombs.

By Abraham Lincoln
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and seco...

By Abraham Lincoln