Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on God

1. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp to infinite to exist only for a day! No, no man was made for immortality.

2. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

3. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.

4. 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.

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

6. God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

7. 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.

8. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Leadership

1. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.

2. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

3. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

4. I will prepare and someday by chance will come.

5. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

6. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

7. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Slavery

1.Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale ad undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested and then either exiled or hanged.

2. slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature; opposition to it on his love of justice.

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

4. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

5. I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

6. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Happiness

1. Whatever you are, be a good one.

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

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

4. The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine.

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

6. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes

1. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

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

3. I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people according to the bond of service - the united states Constitution and that such I am responsible to them.

4. You say you will not fight to free negroes. some of them seem willing to fight for you.

5. Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the Framers of the constitution originally placed it.

6. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

7. I leave you hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that at men are credited free and equal.

 Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Freedom

1. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

3. America will never be destroyed from the outside if we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

4. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

5. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.

6. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Inspirational Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

1. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

2. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

4.The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

5. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

6. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

8. Whatever you are, be a good one.

9. The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity.

10. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Education

1. All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

2. The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who will get me a book        I ain't read.

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

4. That governement of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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

6. I am a firm believer in people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

7. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

8. Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the declaration of independence.

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

10. Writing: the art of communicating thoughts to the mind is the great invention of the world; Great, very great is enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space, and great not only in its direct benefits, but its great help to all other inventions.

11. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.