Explore Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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

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

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.