Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

About Abraham Lincoln:

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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Government quotes by Abraham Lincoln, UberQuotes

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

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

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Abraham Lincoln

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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

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God quotes by Abraham Lincoln, UberQuotes

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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Life quotes by Abraham Lincoln, UberQuotes

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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Life quotes by Abraham Lincoln, Mother's Day quotes by Abraham Lincoln, UberQuotes

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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

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

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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Author Bio

  • NameAbraham Lincoln
  • DescriptionUS President
  • AliasesAbe Lincoln; Lincoln; Honest Abe
  • BornFebruary 12, 1809
  • DiedApril 15, 1865
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Postmaster; Lawyer; Statesman