102 Quotes By Abraham Lincoln


The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln on art

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln on best

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln on best

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.
Abraham Lincoln on best

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

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln on best

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln on best

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 on best

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln on best

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln on best

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln on best

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln on best

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln on business

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln on business

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln on business

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln on equality

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln on equality

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln on experience