Abraham Lincoln is one of my favorite inspirations. He may have been odd and was very thin for a man of his day, but he didn't let that stop him. He truely had a voice that could move entire nations and effect even the strongest of men, and he led by the cold-blooded truth and what he thought himself to be not what others had thought.
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln, byname Honest Abe, the Rail-Splitter, or the Great Emancipator, (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S. —died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C. ), 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of the slaves.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
1. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.Abraham Lincoln
2. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
3. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
4. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
5. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
6. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
7. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
8. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
9. How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
10. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
11. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
12. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
13. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
14. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
15. Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
16. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln
17. Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln
18. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
19. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
20. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
21. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
22. For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln
23. No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
24. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
25. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln
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