Explore Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.