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And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
— Belle Boyd
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
— Abraham Lincoln
Put down your guns and go home. Let's rebuild the nation together. This was President Lincoln's vision, to which Grant subscribed.
— Bill O'Reilly
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
— John F. Kerry
I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you.
— Jessica Shirvington
Color faded into Lincoln's cheeks.
— S.M. Reine
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
— Abraham Lincoln
The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.
— Rainbow Rowell
Lincoln's so efficient, especially for a guy who "bends rules".
— Katie McGarry
If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.
— Abraham Lincoln
Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.
— Jerome Charyn
No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
— Abraham Lincoln
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an instrument of God's will.
— Joe L. Wheeler
I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
— Abraham Lincoln
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
— Abraham Lincoln
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
— Abraham Lincoln
It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.
— Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Anger's not a good emotion.
— Lincoln Chafee
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
— Gore Vidal
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.
— Lincoln Peirce
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
— Abraham Lincoln
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
— Abraham Lincoln
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
— Abraham Lincoln
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
— Abraham Lincoln
A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!
— James Oppenheim
Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.
— Adam Driver
A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
— Abraham Lincoln
The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.
— Harold Holzer
It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
— Blanche Lincoln
News is just news until it happens to you. Then it's tragedy.
— J. Lincoln Fenn
I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.
— J. Lincoln Fenn
Then he leans back in his chair, pressing his hands together like he's having an intellectual bowel movement, his brows seriously furrowed.
— J. Lincoln Fenn
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
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
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 surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
— 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
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
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
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— 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
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
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