Lincoln's Quotes & Sayings
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. —
Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words. —
Sarah Palin

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time. —
Abraham Lincoln

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. —
Abraham Lincoln

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. —
John F. Kennedy

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' —
Mary Todd Lincoln

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. —
Abraham Lincoln

If I didn't have
Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by. —
Jessica Shirvington

Lincoln also wrote in the letter to his son's teacher, Teach him how to gracefully lose. —
Malala Yousafzai

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees. —
Abraham Lincoln

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well. —
Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. —
Abraham Lincoln

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am. —
Abraham Lincoln

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) —
Sherrilyn Kenyon

His (
Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God. —
Elton Trueblood

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. —
Abraham Lincoln

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow. —
Abraham Lincoln

You can drink out of
Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too. —
Suzy Bogguss

Report that Tad was better eased
Lincoln's mind, —
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over —
Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own. —
Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. —
Steven Spielberg

The glory that was
Lincoln's never died when he was slain. —
Phil Ochs

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. —
Abraham Lincoln

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power. —
Abraham Lincoln

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. —
Abraham Lincoln

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people. —
David Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'. —
Abraham Lincoln
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. —
William Manchester

Military glory
that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood
that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy ... —
Abraham Lincoln

It's a Chomper standard. - Otto Ray —
Monet Polny

confirmed
Lincoln's view that —
Edwin S. Grosvenor

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. —
Abraham Lincoln

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. —
Abraham Lincoln

An adult friend of
Lincoln's: Life was to him a school. —
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than
Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. —
Francis James Grimke

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business. —
Ulysses S. Grant

You can make any quote sound meaningful by putting a famous person's name after it. —
Abraham Lincoln

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me. —
Andrew Lincoln

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. —
Lincoln Diaz-Balart

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both. —
Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA —
Abraham Lincoln

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.' —
Jim Rohn

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus. —
Bill Hicks

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. —
James Hansen

You can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today —
Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side. —
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's eyes travel over my body, his gaze lingering on my curves. "I think I'm falling in love." —
Katie McGarry

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side. —
Abraham Lincoln

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship. —
Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Thanks for giving me a place to sleep last night,
and for the extra blanket.
Vi.
-Violet's note to Lincoln —
Jessica Shirvington

I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction. —
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Gold is good in it's place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. —
Abraham Lincoln

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric. —
Lincoln Chafee

To lead, you must touch men's hearts. —
Abraham Lincoln

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. —
Abraham Lincoln

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow. —
Abbey Lincoln

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. —
Abraham Lincoln

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe? —
Hank Williams Jr.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade. —
Abraham Lincoln

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. —
Lincoln Diaz-Balart

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
[
Lincoln's maxim and philosophy] —
Abraham Lincoln