Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 12

• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Succeed, Imagine, Concerts

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.537, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  Abraham Lincoln

  Daughter, Mother, Truth

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• Labor is the true standard of value.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Standards, Labor

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Should, Worst

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• One is a majority if he is right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Majority, Ifs

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• You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Quality, Valuable, Indispensable

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.434, Library of America

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• Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Drinking, President, Politician

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• I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.680, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Uncles, Sea, Rivers

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Middle, Streams

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Saving, Fruit, Prosperity

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• I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Wish

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

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• When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Two, People

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• I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Favors, Tariffs

  "Obama's Challenge: What Would Lincoln Do?" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2009.

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• It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lines, Able, Fit

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• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Minorities

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press

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• Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

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• Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Battle, Liberty, Needs

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, White, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.132, Penguin

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• The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Men, Calling

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Communication, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Friendship is the start for what you call love.

  Abraham Lincoln

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