Abraham Lincoln

214 quotes

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

"If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other."

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"If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, then the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."

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"For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like."

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"For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like."

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"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

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"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."

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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have few virtues."

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"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing."

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"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."

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

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"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

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"With the catching end the pleasures of the chase."

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

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

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"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

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"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

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"I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back."

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"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

Abraham Lincoln