Abraham Lincoln: Trending quotes (page 18)

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”

“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

“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.”