Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
- Abraham Lincoln
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
- Abraham Lincoln
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
- Abraham Lincoln