“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
-Abraham Lincoln

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

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
-Abraham Lincoln

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

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”
-Abraham Lincoln

“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
-Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address