Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.