Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2025 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. “I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If I’m wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won’t make a difference.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

154. “I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.”

— Abraham Lincoln

155. “As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?”

— Abraham Lincoln

156. “Too many piglets not enough tits.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

158. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

162. “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

163. “The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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 “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

176. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

179. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

183. “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

184. “We cannot escape history.”

— Abraham Lincoln

185. “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

186. “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

194. “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

195. “Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”

— Abraham Lincoln

196. “His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”

— Abraham Lincoln

197. “In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.”

— Abraham Lincoln

198. “A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”

— Abraham Lincoln

199. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln