The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln


Public opinion in this country is everything.

 

Abraham Lincoln


When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

 

Abraham Lincoln


To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

 

Abraham Lincoln


Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

 

Abraham Lincoln


If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Abraham Lincoln


I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Abraham Lincoln


As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln


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

Abraham Lincoln


Some day I shall be President.

Abraham Lincoln


He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln


Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln


If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Abraham Lincoln


I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Abraham Lincoln


It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln


Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln


No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln


This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln


Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln


Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln


No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln


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

Abraham Lincoln


I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln


I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Abraham Lincoln


I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln


Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln


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

Abraham Lincoln

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