Abraham Lincoln – April 15, 1865, the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a week after the war’s end If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
“Quotes By Abraham Lincoln”
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Abraham Lincoln
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug 1862
People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
Attrib
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
Said on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Speech, 19 May 1856
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
James Morgan
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I have always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Presidential Anecdotes
I can’t spare this man; he fights.
Resisting demands for the dismissal of Ulysses Grant.
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
Speech, 19 May 1856
Well, he looks like a man.
On catching sight of Walt Whitman for the first time.
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What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Speech, 27 Feb 1860
You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Speech, 1854
An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses in mid-stream.
Speech, 9 June 1864