Abraham Lincoln Quotes

1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
quotes
152
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“Everybody likes a compliment.”
Compliments
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Greatness
“Towering genius disdains a beaten path.”
VerifiedThe Lyceum Address (1838) · evidenceGenius
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Voting
“Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”
Freedom
“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
Popularity
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Progress
“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
Progress
“I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.”
Danger
“All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Family
“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”
Action
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
Perseverance
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”
VerifiedAddress Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature (9 March 1832) · evidenceAmbition
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Preparation
“Every man over forty is responsible for his face.”
Faces
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
Faces
“Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.”
Self-esteem
“I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.”
Ambiguity
“We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.”
Planning
“God must love the common man, he made so many of them.”
Humankind
“What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Publicity
“Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”
Truth
“Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.”
Appearance
“With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.”
Hope
“I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.”
Tears
“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
Lies and Lying
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Friends and Friendship
“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.”
Peace