Inspiring Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Sir, 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.
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Some day I shall be President.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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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.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Abraham Lincoln

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln