Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln

Profession : President

Birth : February 12, 1809

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing

Abraham Lincoln

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.

Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Abraham Lincoln

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

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 disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln