Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

— Abraham Lincoln

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

256. “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

257. “This nation under God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

260. “Honor is better than honors.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

262. “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

263. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

267. “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

268. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

270. “If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

272. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

276. “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

— Abraham Lincoln

277. “Work, work, work, is the main thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

278. “I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

280. “You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.”

— Abraham Lincoln

281. “The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.”

— Abraham Lincoln

282. “I will either be America’s greatest president or its last.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

284. “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

285. “If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

288. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

291. “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

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292. “I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

293. “In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

298. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

300. “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