Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

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.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

If there is anything that a man can do well,

I say let him do it.

Give him a chance.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

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.

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.

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know

what his grandson will be.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation

whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,

and you allow him to do so whenever

he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose

and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Everybody likes a compliment.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I have great respect for the semicolon;

it is a mighty handy little fellow.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.