Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He kept the Union during the Civil War in the United States and the emancipation of slaves.

20. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

19. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

18. “The best thing about the future is that it

comes one day at a time.”

17. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

16. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

15. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

14. “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

13. “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.”

12. “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

11. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

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10. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

9. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to

succeed is more important than any other.”

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.”

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.”

6. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

5. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

4. “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

3. “I do the very best I know how - the very best I

can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

2. “No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

1. “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.”

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