Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 4

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

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.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

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, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

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

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

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.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.

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

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

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

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.

We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.