Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Hold on with a bulldog grip,

and chew and choke as much as possible.

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

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.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

Common looking people are the best in the world:

that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Lets have faith that right makes might;

and in that faith let us,

to the end,

dare to do our duty as we understand it.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.

I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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.

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

As I would not be a slave,

so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

No man is good enough to govern another man

without the other's consent.

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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.

That some achieve great success,

is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.