Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 8

• Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Wicked, Thank God

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

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• I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Climate

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• I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doubt, Evidence Of God, Instance

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Earth, Lasts

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Peace, Mean

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• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Past

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• Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Yoga, Procrastination, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Godly, Safety, Presidential

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• There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Military, War

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• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Libertarian, Helping

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

  Abraham Lincoln

  United States, May, Constitution

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• Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Distance, Writing

  Abraham Lincoln's address on discoveries and inventions at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 18, 1935.

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• Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Adversity, Succeed, Failing

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

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• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Light, Congress And The President, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Believe, Struggle

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• Teach hope to all, despair to none.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Despair, Temperance, Teach

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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• The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Men, Goal

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• Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fine China, Broken, Reputation

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• If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Views, Numbers, Liberty

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Humble, Helping Others

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Depression, Believe

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• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Prayer, War, Men

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.25, University of Chicago Press

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• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Government, Justice

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

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