Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

203. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

213. “Shall we stop this bleeding?”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

215. “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

216. “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

217. “Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

219. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

221. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

229. “Never let your correspondence fall behind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

232. “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

233. “Honor is better than honors.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

236. “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

237. “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

238. “Human-nature will not change.”

— Abraham Lincoln

239. “You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

241. “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.”

— Abraham Lincoln

242. “It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”

— Abraham Lincoln

243. “Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.”

— Abraham Lincoln

244. “Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

— Abraham Lincoln

245. “Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.”

— Abraham Lincoln

246. “If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

250. “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