Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Sir, My concern is not weather God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.