22 Random Quotes From Abraham Lincoln

22 Random Quotes From Abraham Lincolne

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

— Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

— Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

— Abraham Lincoln

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

— Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

— Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

— Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

— Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

— Abraham Lincoln

Never regret what you don't write.

— Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

— Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

— Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

— Abraham Lincoln

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