Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace
- Abraham Lincoln
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln
Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
- Abraham Lincoln
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
- Abraham Lincoln
To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
- Abraham Lincoln
Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
- Abraham Lincoln
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln