Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like"

"If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg."

"Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men"

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down..."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die"

"I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise."

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"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."

"A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections."

"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again"

"Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40."

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

"If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

"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."