Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quote: Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln (The House Divided speech, 1858)

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln (The Gettysburg Adress, 1863)

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln (Quoted in How to Get What You Want, 1917)

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quote: I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln (Speech made in Washington D.C., 1865)

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Abraham Lincoln

A tendency to melancholy.... let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Abraham Lincoln (Letter to Mary Speed, 1841)

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln (Debate in Illnois, 1858)

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln (Letter to Isham Reavis, 1855)

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln (Letter to Joseph Gillespie, 1849)

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln (Letter to J. M. Cutts, 1863)

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln (The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1867)

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln (Quoted in How to Get What You Want, 1917)

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.

Abraham Lincoln (Speech on National Bank, 1839)



The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Abraham Lincoln

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Biography

Born: February 12, 1809
Died: April 15, 1865

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He is widely known for his opposition of slavery and his role in the American Civil War.
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