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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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

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The best way to predict your future is to create it

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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

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It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better an...

Abraham Lincoln

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

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To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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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