Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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 up to what light I have.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

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

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Whatever you are, be a good one.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

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.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.