Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Presidential
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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
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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 should be on the Lord's side.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
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Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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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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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 disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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