Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

— Abraham Lincoln

102. “He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”

— Abraham Lincoln

103. “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”

— Abraham Lincoln

104. “I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God’s word because it finds me where I am.”

— Abraham Lincoln

105. “If you have never failed you have never lived.”

— Abraham Lincoln

106. “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.”

— Abraham Lincoln

107. “Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.”

— Abraham Lincoln

108. “God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.”

— Abraham Lincoln

109. “The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

— Abraham Lincoln

110. “The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.”

— Abraham Lincoln

111. “Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”

— Abraham Lincoln

112. “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

— Abraham Lincoln

113. “When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn’t doing the exact same thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

114. “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

— Abraham Lincoln

115. “Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”

— Abraham Lincoln

116. “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

— Abraham Lincoln

117. “Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

118. “Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

— Abraham Lincoln

119. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

— Abraham Lincoln

120. “There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

— Abraham Lincoln

121. “I see a very dark cloud on America’s horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.”

— Abraham Lincoln

122. “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

123. “It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

124. “History is not history unless it is the truth.”

— Abraham Lincoln

125. “Everybody likes a compliment.”

— Abraham Lincoln

126. “A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.”

— Abraham Lincoln

127. “Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

— Abraham Lincoln

128. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

— Abraham Lincoln

129. “The will of God prevails.”

— Abraham Lincoln

130. “Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

— Abraham Lincoln

131. “Never change horses in midstream.”

— Abraham Lincoln

132. “The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.”

— Abraham Lincoln

133. “A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”

— Abraham Lincoln

134. “A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

— Abraham Lincoln

135. “Your rights end where my nose begins.”

— Abraham Lincoln

136. “If you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything.”

— Abraham Lincoln

137. “It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.”

— Abraham Lincoln

138. “I am an optimist because I don’t see the point in being anything else.”

— Abraham Lincoln

139. “Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.”

— Abraham Lincoln

140. “You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”

— Abraham Lincoln

141. “When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.”

— Abraham Lincoln

142. “I will learn, the opportunity will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

143. “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.”

— Abraham Lincoln

144. “That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

— Abraham Lincoln

145. “A man’s legs must be long enough to reach the ground.”

— Abraham Lincoln

146. “If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

147. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”

— Abraham Lincoln

148. “Violence begins where knowledge ends.”

— Abraham Lincoln

149. “The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.”

— Abraham Lincoln

150. “God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.”

— Abraham Lincoln