Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.

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 of 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 of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.