You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.


Abraham Lincoln

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing do...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by wea...
WILLIAM J.H. BOETCKER
1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by we...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
THE HELP
I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
THE HELP
Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.
GLYNIS JOHNS
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE
You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.
SERGEI LAVROV
Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.
GLYNIS JOHNS
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
SAM LEVENSON
If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
GEORGE HERBERT
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by sp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The loves prove that they are unworthy to take the place of God by the fact that they cannot even re...
C.S. LEWIS
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society
C.S. LEWIS
You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
DALAI LAMA
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
DALAI LAMA XIV
There are some who try to bear the weight of the world by themselves. But, as humans we are too weak...
SS038NICK
When he has disappeared, Mother clears her throat. I don't turn around and look at her in the rockin...
KATHYRN STOCKETT
Don't you let him cheapen you.
KATHYRN STOCKETT
Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down
KATHRYN STOCKETT
I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my sho...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it w...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And s...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
KATHRYN STOCKETT
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell y...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
SBA can help these small businesses overcome their economic injuries by offering these working capit...
FRANK SKAGGS
You is good, You is smart, You is important.
KATHRYN STOCKETT THE HELP
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
AIBILEEN CLARK (THE HELP)
You cannot become great by working for salary.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW
How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER
You cannot live life by what-ifs.
CLINTON PORTIS
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mis...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to ...
BRYANT MCGILL
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
MICKEY ROURKE
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must underg...
ALBERT CAMUS
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo ...
ALBERT CAMUS
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people...
RAY BRADBURY
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

JOHN F. KENNEDY
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
WILLIAM BOETCKER
You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmen...
WANGARI MAATHAI
You cannot lead this country by misleading the people.
DAN QUAYLE
Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We...
ERIK PAULSEN
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
WOODROW WILSON
You cannot help another person without simultaneously helping yourself.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
You cannot find strength by loathing.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you...
MUNIA KHAN
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, ...
FANNIE LOU HAMER
You cannot feel such a happiness by things happening in your life but doing something successfully i...
NISHI DE SILVA
I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and...
SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
STEVIE NICKS
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
ERNIE FLETCHER
I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for...
TAYLOR V. DONOVAN
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremend...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
J. PAUL GETTY
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must hav...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind," she say, "you is smart. You is ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
There is nothing else to say, so I just murmur, "I know. Thank you for the chance." And I add, "Merr...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
The power to know those that don't believe in you nor your dreams,lies in those that repeatedly refu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' a...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' a...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
The fact of the matter is that you cannot make other people do anything without their consent. No ma...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
SAMUEL LEVENSON
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO
You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
The concept of what you are cannot be defined by the mind, because it is infinite...
RENATE VULLINGS
By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to ...
DAVID MORSE
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot prote...
WIM WENDERS
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up...
ANDREW CARNEGIE
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physica...
LOU HOLTZ
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, me...
AUBERON HERBERT
We cannot ignore the market realities facing Delphi, which is unable to sustain wage and benefit lev...
CLAUDIA BAUCUS

More Abraham Lincoln

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not plea...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The le...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Some day I shall be President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest r...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should neve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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 ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Whenever I hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personal...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be reme...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to preve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of B...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, sh...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no nece...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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 t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay dow...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Everybody likes a compliment.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
All I have learned, I learned from books.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN