One of the most famous people of all time, Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
Tolstoy called Lincoln “so great he overshadows all other national heroes”.
The most popular biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln written by American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, is not only a biography of Lincoln, but also of his three key rivals for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1860, William Seward, Edward Bates and Salmon Chase.
When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. However, Lincoln’s extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men and to understand their motives and desires, enabled him, as president, to bring these opponents together, creating the most unusual cabinet in the history of the U.S., and using their talents to preserve the Union and win the war.
Abraham Lincoln’s Top 38 Quotes
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
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“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“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 a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln
