Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"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. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares."