Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of Abraham Lincoln quotes and sayings. Lincoln was the 16th President of the USA. His term lasted from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country‘s cause.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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

“Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.”
– 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.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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