Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky and become the the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a month after the war’s end. Before his election as President, Lincoln was a lawyer, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.
Quotes By Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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. Attrib.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Taking part in a discussion on ancestry. Attrib.
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug 1862
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
If you don’t want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln.
Letter to General George B. McClellan, whose lack of activity during the US Civil War irritated Lincoln.
It is not our frowning battlements…or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land…Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
Speech, 11 Sept 1858
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
People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
A comment on a book. 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.
Our President (James Morgan).
The best gift God has given man is the Bible. It is by all odds the most influential book (or rather collection of books) in existence. The Old and New Testaments have held men together spiritually through the centuries. Three hundred and fifty years ago, in 1611, fifty four devoted English scholars and churchmen, assigned to the task by King James I , gave to the English speaking world a monument of noble prose, on which so many of us have been brought up. The Bible has been translated into more than 1,150 languages. In short, the Bible has had the most dramatic career of any book in the world.
Abraham Lincoln
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar 1861
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. Attrib.
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.
Attrib.
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Prohibition..makes a crime out of things that are not crimes..
Submitted By: Thomas LapradeA prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded
Abraham Lincoln (December 1840)
With malice toward none, with charity for all, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in, …to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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