Quotes By Author

Quotations By Abraham Lincoln

Chance

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

Change

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we mustrise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Conscience

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Conservative-Liberal

What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Criticism

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Decision

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Ethics

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Excellence

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Expectation

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

Freedom

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Inspiration

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

Life

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

Peace

Peace will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have to be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost. -- Abraham Lincoln

Truth

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Understanding

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.