Abraham Lincoln

Country United States
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes 148
US citizen
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Uncategorized
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Uncategorized
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace Uncategorized
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept Uncategorized
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me Uncategorized
You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. Uncategorized
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Uncategorized
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work Uncategorized
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Uncategorized
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Uncategorized
I have very earnestly urged the slave-states to adopt emancipation; and it ought to be, and is an object with me not to overthrow, or thwart what any of them may in good faith do, to that end. Uncategorized
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." Uncategorized
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Uncategorized
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. Uncategorized
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed. Uncategorized
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. Uncategorized
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Uncategorized
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Uncategorized
Whatever you are, be a good one. Uncategorized
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. Uncategorized