Abraham Lincoln President Quotations

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Only events and not a man's exertions in his own behalf, can make a President

Some day I shall be President.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!

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.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

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

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

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

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.