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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But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Abraham Lincoln

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desira...

Abraham Lincoln

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [ye...

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll git me a book I ain't read. (ca. 1825; in Sandburg, Prairie Years, I, p. 71)

Abraham Lincoln

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Abraham Lincoln

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.

Abraham Lincoln

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Abraham Lincoln

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect reli...

Abraham Lincoln

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln

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