Abraham Lincoln Quotes

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Initially entering politics as a Whig, he became a member of the US congress from Illinois, and later the first Republican president, leading Union forces throughout the moral, constitutional, political and military crises of the American Civil War, during which he abolished slavery and strengthened the U.S. government.

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Alternative Names: Honest Abe • President Lincoln • Abe Lincoln • Uncle Abe • A. Lincoln • Lincoln

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' 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 should 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 of hypocrisy.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Achievement has no color

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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