Explore Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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.

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.