Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th US President Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-30] of 56 Abraham Lincoln quotesAbraham Lincoln QuotesAbraham Lincoln Next 30 quotes A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.~ Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.~ Abraham Lincoln How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.~ Abraham Lincoln 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.~ Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.~ Abraham Lincoln It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...~ Abraham Lincoln Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.~ Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power.~ Abraham Lincoln The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert it!~ Abraham Lincoln The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shephard as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.~ Abraham Lincoln Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.~ Abraham Lincoln To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.~ Abraham Lincoln When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.~ Abraham Lincoln With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.~ Abraham Lincoln Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ~ Abraham Lincoln I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it.~ Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.~ Abraham Lincoln What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.~ Abraham Lincoln This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.~ Abraham Lincoln [I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.~ Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.~ Abraham Lincoln Let it [the Constitution] be taught in schools, seminaries and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation.~ Abraham Lincoln 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 of the time.~ Abraham Lincoln Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.~ Abraham Lincoln Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.~ Abraham Lincoln Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.~ Abraham Lincoln To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.~ Abraham Lincoln If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.~ Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.~ Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~ Abraham Lincoln Next 30 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print