No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
I care not if God is on my side; my constant hope and prayer is that I may be found on the Lord's side.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't." ~Abraham Lincoln
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our nation was founded.
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems now not an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
Common-looking people are the best in the world; that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...
Resolove to be honest in all events; and if in your own judgement you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
A drop of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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. — Abraham Lincoln
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.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control.
The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation because she never cackles until after the egg has been laid.
The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy
The problem with internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy.
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that `all men are created equal;' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
I do not mean to say, that the scenes of the revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten; but that like every thing else, they must fade upon the memory of the world, and grow more and more dim by the lapse of time.... At the close of the struggle, nearly every adult male had been a participator in some of its scenes. The consequence was, that of those scenes, in the form of a husband, a father, a son or a brother, a living history was to be found in every family.... But those histories are gone. They can be read no more forever. They were a fortress of strength; but, what invading foemen could never do, the silent artillery of time has done; the leveling of its walls
"I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”