Abraham Lincoln Quotes

1. I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
    
2. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
    
3. Whatever you are, be a good one.
    
4. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
    
5. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
    
6. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
    
7. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
    
8. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
    
9. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
    
10. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
     
11. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
     
12. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
     
13. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves;  and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
     
14. The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.
     
15. We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we
    expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
     
16. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
     
17. I am a patient man — always willing to forgive on the Christian
    terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.
     
18. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free —
    honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall
    nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
     
19. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
     
20. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "All men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, "All men are created equal except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
     
21. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!