Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes

• 
  • Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
  • Fool, Doubt, Speak 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
  • God, Greatest, Whether 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. Abraham Lincoln
  • Time, Cannot, Fool Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
  • Happiness, Happy, Minds Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
  • Power, Men, Character In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
  • Life, End, Count 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
  • Men, Both, Congress Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
  • Four, Spend, Tree All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln
  • Mother's Day, Hope, Mother 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. Abraham Lincoln
  • Government, Grow, Shall Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
  • Success, Mind, Succeed Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
  • Character, Reputation, Tree Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
  • Interfere, Liberties, Maintained 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
  • Labor, Higher, Fruit I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln
  • True, Him, Wrong The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln
  • Time, Best, Future A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. Abraham Lincoln Enemy, Friend Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
  • Government, Earth, Shall I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
  • Mother's Day, Life, Mother 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.
  • Power, Hope, Government Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
  • Friendship, Friends, Enemy Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
  • Place, Sure, Stand 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
  • Truth, Great, Crisis No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
  • Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln
  • May, Wait, Left A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln
  • Cannot, Against, Stand When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. Abraham Lincoln
  • Good, Religion, Bad You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
  • Today, Cannot, Tomorrow No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
  • Good, Successful, Enough The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  • Education, Best, Book I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln