Abraham Lincoln quotes and words of wisdom

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Found in the topic Face.

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
Found in the topic Idea.

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Found in the topic Enemy.

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
Found in the topic Talent.

"If you intend to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling from place to place can do no good."
Found in the topic Work.

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Found in the topic Tact.

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man ... to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
Found in the topic Immortality.

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong."
Found in the topic Right.

"Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world."
Found in the topic Industry.

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Found in the topic Mind.

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other?s consent."
Found in the topic Civil.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Found in the topic Easy.

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Found in the topic Bad.

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can"t fool all of the people all of the time."
Found in the topic Confidence.

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
Found in the topic Character.

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Found in the topic Today.

"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."
Found in the topic Endure.

"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
Found in the topic Freedom.

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
Found in the topic Conquer.

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
Found in the topic Death.

Interesting Quotes

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.Havelock Ellis - English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)

But did thee feel the earth move?Ernest Hemingway - US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)

  

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States from March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.

Lincoln helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.

Lincoln's leadership qualities were evident in his close supervision of the victorious war effort, especially in his selection of Ulysses S. Grant and other top generals. Historians conclude he brilliantly handled the factions of the Republican Party by bringing the leaders into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate. In crisis management, he defused a war scare with the United Kingdom (1861), he outmaneuvered the Confederacy and took control of the border slave states in 1861-62, and he managed his own landslide reelection in the 1864 presidential election.

Antiwar Copperheads criticized him for refusing to compromise on slavery. On the other hand, Radical Republicans, a strongly Abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Lincoln rallied public opinion through the powerful rhetoric of his messages and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is remembered as the prime example. At the close of the war, Lincoln took a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily re-unite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation.

Lincoln's assassination in 1865 made him a martyr for the ideal of national unity.

Read more about this great person on Wikipedia, and The White House.