Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

“The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.”

“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I dont deny it. Id rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“I care not for a mans religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it”

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”

“I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army”

“God must love the common man, he made so many of them”

“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience”

“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself”

“If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?”

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

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”

“In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the bestgift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world wascommunicated through this Book. But for it we could not know rightfrom wrong. All things most desirable for mans welfare, here andhereafter, are found portrayed in it.”

“For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world”

“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust”

“If the Constitution is to be construed to mean what the majority at any given period in history wish the Constitution to mean, why a written Constitution? Frank J”

“What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way”

“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”