Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The written word may be man’s greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

— Abraham Lincoln

252. “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.”

— Abraham Lincoln

253. “I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.”

— Abraham Lincoln

254. “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

255. “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

— Abraham Lincoln

256. “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

257. “Always remember: Life is for enjoying.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

259. “Public opinion in this country is everything.”

— Abraham Lincoln

260. “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

— Abraham Lincoln

261. “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

— Abraham Lincoln

262. “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

263. “There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”

— Abraham Lincoln

264. “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

265. “You know you’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.”

— Abraham Lincoln

266. “Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.”

— Abraham Lincoln

267. “I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.”

— Abraham Lincoln

268. “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

269. “We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.”

— Abraham Lincoln

270. “Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”

— Abraham Lincoln

271. “Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.”

— Abraham Lincoln

272. “A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.”

— Abraham Lincoln

273. “I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

274. “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

— Abraham Lincoln

275. “I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.”

— Abraham Lincoln

276. “This nation under God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

277. “The struggle of today, is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.”

— Abraham Lincoln

278. “Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

279. “Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”

— Abraham Lincoln

280. “There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

282. “It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...”

— Abraham Lincoln

283. “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.”

— Abraham Lincoln

284. “A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

— Abraham Lincoln

285. “I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.”

— Abraham Lincoln

286. “I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

— Abraham Lincoln

287. “I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.”

— Abraham Lincoln

288. “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

— Abraham Lincoln

289. “We shall not fail – if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

290. “We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”

— Abraham Lincoln

291. “If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

— Abraham Lincoln

292. “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

— Abraham Lincoln

293. “In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.”

— Abraham Lincoln

294. “You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional – I think differently.”

— Abraham Lincoln

295. “Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

297. “If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”

— Abraham Lincoln

298. “One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.”

— Abraham Lincoln

299. “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”

— Abraham Lincoln

300. “I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.”

— Abraham Lincoln