Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Sayings - Page 5

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves â€“ in their separate, and individual capacities.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes
“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Friendship Quotes #Loss Quotes #Enemy Quotes
“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Freedom Quotes #Fire Quotes #People Quotes
“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Bible Quotes #Christian Quotes #Book Quotes
“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.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Country Quotes #Money Quotes #Hands Quotes
“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Reading Quotes #Keys Quotes #Giving Quotes
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Crush Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Military Quotes
“Achievement has no color”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Color Quotes #Racism Quotes #Achievement Quotes
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational Quotes #Education Quotes #Book Quotes
“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Happiness Quotes #Depression Quotes #Believe Quotes
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Honesty Quotes #Truth Quotes #Slander Quotes
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Happiness Quotes #Procrastination Quotes #Men Quotes
“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Country Quotes #Trying Quotes #Entitlement Quotes
“You canâ€™t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Strong Quotes #Men Quotes #Strong Man Quotes
“To ease anotherâ€™s heartache is to forget oneâ€™s own.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Love Quotes #Humble Quotes #Helping Others Quotes
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational Quotes #Determination Quotes #Done Quotes
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Hope Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Laughing Quotes
“We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Life Quotes #Humor Quotes #Important Quotes
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes
“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Photography Quotes #Looks Quotes #Faces Quotes
“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Life Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Infidelity Quotes
“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Leadership Quotes #Loyalty Quotes #Leader Quotes
“You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#People Quotes #Please Quotes
“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Principles Quotes #Links Quotes #Divine Quotes
“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Hate Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Commitment Quotes #Reality Quotes #Promise Quotes
“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Death Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes #Men Quotes
“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Hurt Quotes #People Quotes #Hurt Me Quotes
“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Bible Quotes #God Quotes #Religious Quotes

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