Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Whatever you are, be a good one!

If friendship is your weakest point, then you are the strongest person in the world.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good.

Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

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

if you want to test a man's character, give him power.