Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Most people are as happy as they want to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

154. “Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.”

— Abraham Lincoln

155. “I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”

— Abraham Lincoln

156. “No man ever got lost on a straight road.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

158. “Violence begins where knowledge ends.”

— Abraham Lincoln

159. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

— Abraham Lincoln

160. “The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.”

— Abraham Lincoln

161. “Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

162. “The struggle of today is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also.”

— Abraham Lincoln

163. “Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”

— Abraham Lincoln

164. “That we 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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

166. “The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.”

— Abraham Lincoln

167. “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”

— Abraham Lincoln

168. “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

— Abraham Lincoln

169. “Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.”

— Abraham Lincoln

170. “The health you enjoy is largely your choice.”

— Abraham Lincoln

171. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

— Abraham Lincoln

172. “You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.”

— Abraham Lincoln

173. “Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.”

— Abraham Lincoln

174. “I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

175. “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

— Abraham Lincoln

176. “The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

177. “Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

178. “It has been said of the world’s history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.”

— Abraham Lincoln

179. “Laws change; people die; the land remains.”

— Abraham Lincoln

180. “Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”

— Abraham Lincoln

181. “Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.”

— Abraham Lincoln

182. “My policy is to have no policy.”

— Abraham Lincoln

183. “If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

184. “Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

185. “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.”

— Abraham Lincoln

186. “Writing is the great invention of the world.”

— Abraham Lincoln

187. “One is a majority if he is right.”

— Abraham Lincoln

188. “The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

189. “We cannot escape history.”

— Abraham Lincoln

190. “The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”

— Abraham Lincoln

191. “Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

— Abraham Lincoln

192. “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

193. “Bad promises are better broken than kept.”

— Abraham Lincoln

194. “As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”

— Abraham Lincoln

195. “All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

196. “Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”

— Abraham Lincoln

197. “Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

199. “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 exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

200. “But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.”

— Abraham Lincoln