Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me”

“I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.”

“Dont misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer”

“The problem with any unwritten law is that you dont know where to go to erase it”

“The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed”

“A lawyers time and advice are his stock in trade”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Truth is the daughter of Time.”

“I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.”

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

“I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.”

“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”

“In every horror beauty can be found.”

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

“In every hell there is beauty to be found in it.”

“I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the whole nation; for those of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.”

“To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but its all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.”

“Wert thou a leopard thou wert germane to the lion”

“Thou art deaths fool;For him thou labourst by thy flight to shunAnd yet runnst toward him still.”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”