Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

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

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of...”

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this ...”

“Achievement has no color”

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”