Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Thoughts

Following are the Famous Quotes by Abraham Lincoln on Freedom, God, Happiness, Leadership, Slavery, Inspirational and Education:-

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Freedom:

1. America will never be destroyed from the outside if we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

2. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.

3. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

4. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

5. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

6. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on God:

1. 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.

2. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

3. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.

4. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

5. God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Happiness:

1. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

2. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

3. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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5. Whatever you are, be a good one.

6. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Leadership:

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

2. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

3. I will prepare and someday by chance will come.

4. I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.

5. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

6. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

7. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Slavery:

1. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

2. slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature; opposition to it on his love of justice.

3. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

4. I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

5. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

6.Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale ad undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested and then either exiled or hanged.

Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes:

1. I leave you hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that at men are credited free and equal.

2. Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the Framers of the constitution originally placed it.

3. I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people according to the bond of service - the united states Constitution and that such I am responsible to them.

4. You say you will not fight to free Negroes. some of them seem willing to fight for you.

5. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

6. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

7. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Inspirational Quotes By Abraham Lincoln:

1. Whatever you are, be a good one.

2. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

3. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

4. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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6. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

7. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

8. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

9. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

10.The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Education:

1. Do not Destroy that Immortal emblem of Humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

2. The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of the government tomorrow.

3. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

4. All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

5. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

6. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

7. 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.

8. "...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

9. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

10. The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

11. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

12. "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 and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

13. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

14. Writing--the art of communicating thoughts to the mind -- is the great invention of the world....Great, Very great, in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space, and great not only in its direct benefits, but its great help to all other inventions.

15. "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves."

16. "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book."

17. The philosophy of the School Room in one Generation will be the Philosophy of Government in the Next.

18."Do not destroy that immortal emblem of Humanity, the declaration of Independence.

19. "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

20. "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."

21. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.