22 Unrepeatable Selected Quotes From Abraham Lincoln

22 Unrepeatable Selected Quotes From Abraham Lincolne

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

— Abraham Lincoln

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

— Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

— Abraham Lincoln

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am rather inclined to silence.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

— Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

— Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

— Abraham Lincoln

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

— Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

— Abraham Lincoln

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

— Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

— Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

— Abraham Lincoln

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