Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

Im a slow walker but I never walk back.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

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 up to what light I have.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

If you dont want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.