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Abraham Lincoln Quotes | Quotes said by Abraham Lincoln

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #1

    A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #2

    A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #3

    A house divided cannot stand.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #4

    Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?”

    Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested,

    “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.”

    “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #5

    Achievement has no color

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #6

    All I have learned, I learned from books.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #7

    All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #8

    All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #9

    Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #10

    Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #11

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

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #12

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

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #13

    Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #14

    America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #15

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

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #16

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

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #17

    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.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #18

    Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #19

    As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #20

    As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #21

    As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #22

    At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. 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 Quote #23

    Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #24

    Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #25

    Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #26

    Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #27

    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #28

    Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #29

    But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

  • Abraham Lincoln Quote #30

    Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

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