Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

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“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“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

“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
– 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.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
– 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

“It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”
– 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

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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