Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.”

— Abraham Lincoln

252. “Human-nature will not change.”

— Abraham Lincoln

253. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

258. “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

259. “With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.”

— Abraham Lincoln

260. “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

261. “The written word may be man’s greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

268. “The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

271. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

275. “I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

279. “This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

282. “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

283. “All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.”

— Abraham Lincoln

284. “This nation under God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

285. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

288. “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

289. “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

290. “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

291. “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

292. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

295. “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

296. “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

297. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

300. “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