Famous Quotes from ...

Abraham Lincoln

  • And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Whatever you are, be a good one.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • My dream is of a place and time where America will once againbe seen as the last best hope of earth.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • 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.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent.... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people... Abraham Lincoln {view}