Abraham Lincoln
97 quotations
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.