Fearless Abraham Lincoln Quotes Time Won't Forget

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

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Everybody likes a compliment.

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

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.