87 quotes by Abraham Lincoln

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“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.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“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

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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” — Abraham Lincoln

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