Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
