Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

By Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

By Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

By Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one

By Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

By Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

By Abraham Lincoln

If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.

By Abraham Lincoln

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

By Abraham Lincoln

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

By Abraham Lincoln

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.

By Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

By Abraham Lincoln

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side

By Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

By Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day

By Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

By Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

By Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

By Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... 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.

By Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

By Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

By Abraham Lincoln

I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

By Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

By Abraham Lincoln

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

By Abraham Lincoln

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.

By Abraham Lincoln

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

By Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

By Abraham Lincoln

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.

By Abraham Lincoln

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

By Abraham Lincoln

Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

By Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

By Abraham Lincoln