Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”

— Abraham Lincoln

52. “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

— Abraham Lincoln

53. “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

— Abraham Lincoln

54. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

— Abraham Lincoln

55. “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

— Abraham Lincoln

56. “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”

— Abraham Lincoln

57. “You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln

58. “When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

— Abraham Lincoln

59. “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

— Abraham Lincoln

60. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

— Abraham Lincoln

61. “Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

62. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

64. “Achievement has no color.”

— Abraham Lincoln

65. “To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

— Abraham Lincoln

66. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

68. “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

69. “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”

— Abraham Lincoln

70. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

— Abraham Lincoln

71. “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.”

— Abraham Lincoln

72. “Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.”

— Abraham Lincoln

73. “Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

— Abraham Lincoln

74. “The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

— Abraham Lincoln

75. “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.”

— Abraham Lincoln

76. “It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.”

— Abraham Lincoln

77. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

— Abraham Lincoln

78. “Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

80. “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

81. “Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”

— Abraham Lincoln

82. “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

— Abraham Lincoln

83. “Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.”

— Abraham Lincoln

84. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

— Abraham Lincoln

85. “If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”

— Abraham Lincoln

86. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

— Abraham Lincoln

87. “Fourscore 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

88. “If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

89. “The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.”

— Abraham Lincoln

90. “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

— Abraham Lincoln

91. “Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.”

— Abraham Lincoln

92. “My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work.”

— Abraham Lincoln

93. “Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

94. “President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. “Why do you try to make friends of them?” asked an associate. “You should try to destroy them.” “Am I not destroying my enemies,” Lincoln gently replied, “when I make them my friends?””

— Abraham Lincoln

95. “If you love something, set it free.”

— Abraham Lincoln

96. “Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”

— Abraham Lincoln

97. “Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

98. “Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.”

— Abraham Lincoln

99. “No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

— Abraham Lincoln

100. “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

— Abraham Lincoln