Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

204. “I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.”

— Abraham Lincoln

205. “The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.”

— Abraham Lincoln

206. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

208. “I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.”

— Abraham Lincoln

209. “We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

210. “You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.”

— Abraham Lincoln

211. “I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I’m too lazy to stop.”

— Abraham Lincoln

212. “I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

214. “Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?”

— Abraham Lincoln

215. “Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

— Abraham Lincoln

216. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.”

— Abraham Lincoln

217. “Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

— Abraham Lincoln

218. “Shall we stop this bleeding?”

— Abraham Lincoln

219. “It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.”

— Abraham Lincoln

220. “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

221. “The surest way to reveal one’s character is not through adversity but by giving them power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

222. “Don’t kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.”

— Abraham Lincoln

223. “A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.”

— Abraham Lincoln

224. “Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.”

— Abraham Lincoln

225. “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.”

— Abraham Lincoln

226. “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”

— Abraham Lincoln

227. “It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

228. “With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”

— Abraham Lincoln

229. “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

— Abraham Lincoln

230. “Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.”

— Abraham Lincoln

231. “What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”

— Abraham Lincoln

232. “Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”

— Abraham Lincoln

233. “Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life!”

— Abraham Lincoln

234. “I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.”

— Abraham Lincoln

235. “Teach hope to all, despair to none.”

— Abraham Lincoln

236. “What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?”

— Abraham Lincoln

237. “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.”

— Abraham Lincoln

238. “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

239. “If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

240. “Care for him who shall have borne the battle.”

— Abraham Lincoln

241. “I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

— Abraham Lincoln

242. “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”

— Abraham Lincoln

243. “Never let your correspondence fall behind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

244. “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”

— Abraham Lincoln

245. “If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending – and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.”

— Abraham Lincoln

246. “Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it’s very hard to repair.”

— Abraham Lincoln

247. “Honor is better than honors.”

— Abraham Lincoln

248. “There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man’s brow.”

— Abraham Lincoln

249. “I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.”

— Abraham Lincoln

250. “There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.”

— Abraham Lincoln