Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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303. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

305. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

307. “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

308. “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

309. “As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

311. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

318. “Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

— Abraham Lincoln

319. “These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

320. “We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

321. “I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.”

— Abraham Lincoln

322. “Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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323. “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

— Abraham Lincoln

324. “Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”

— Abraham Lincoln

325. “But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.”

— Abraham Lincoln

326. “Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.”

— Abraham Lincoln

327. “While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

— Abraham Lincoln

328. “Why don’t I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.”

— Abraham Lincoln

329. “During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!”

— Abraham Lincoln

330. “He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.”

— Abraham Lincoln

331. “All that harms labor is treason to America.”

— Abraham Lincoln

332. “The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.”

— Abraham Lincoln

333. “Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

334. “Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”

— Abraham Lincoln

335. “IF you are going to fight, don’t let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don’t let them talk you into fighting.”

— Abraham Lincoln

336. “Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God’s decree and can never be reversed.”

— Abraham Lincoln

337. “If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.”

— Abraham Lincoln

338. “For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country’s cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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339. “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

340. “When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”

— Abraham Lincoln

341. “As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.”

— Abraham Lincoln

342. “We can succeed only by concert. It is not ’can any of us imagine better?, but ’can we all do better?”

— Abraham Lincoln

343. “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”

— Abraham Lincoln

344. “When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.”

— Abraham Lincoln

345. “Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.”

— Abraham Lincoln

346. “I couldn’t be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn’t wear this one.”

— Abraham Lincoln

347. “With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”

— Abraham Lincoln

348. “Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

— Abraham Lincoln

349. “I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

350. “Why don’t you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.”

— Abraham Lincoln