Abraham Lincoln Quotes

1.I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

2.A house divided against itself cannot stand.

3.Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

4.I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

5.You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

6.Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

7.Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

8.When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

9.The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

10.Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

11.As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

12.Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

13.Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

14.I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

15.Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

16.I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

17.Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

18.If we never try, we shall never succeed.

19.You cannot fail, if you resolutely determine that you will not.

20.Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

21.Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

22.With malice toward none, with charity for all.

23.Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

24.The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

25.We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

26.Whatever you are, be a good one.

27.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.

28.The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

29.My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

30.If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?

31.I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.