Famous Quotes

Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

• That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
• The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
• 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.
• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
• To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.