Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 12

• All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, T Shirt, Shirts

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• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Party, Past, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

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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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• As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Lasts, Break

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• If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, World, Brilliant

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• We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Overcoming, May, Danger

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.20, Fordham Univ Press

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• Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Half, Lost

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

  Abraham Lincoln

  Encouragement, Lying, Fool

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• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wind, Forever

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Secret

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• Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughter, Mind, Awful

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• Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Animal, Men, Workmanship

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected works”

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• Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liberty, Frowning, Bosoms

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.128, Fordham Univ Press

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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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• Friendship is the start for what you call love.

  Abraham Lincoln

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One is a majority if he is right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Majority, Ifs

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• A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Mind

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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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• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Fathers Day

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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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