Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems Abraham Lincoln More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln More Quotes From Abraham Lincoln To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln 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 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 the time. Abraham Lincoln No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? Abraham Lincoln Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed. Abraham Lincoln If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. Abraham Lincoln We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln 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. Abraham Lincoln The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. Abraham Lincoln And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln 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. Abraham Lincoln If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. Abraham Lincoln In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. Abraham Lincoln You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully. Abraham Lincoln Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. Abraham Lincoln People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln
