Abraham Lincoln Quotes Page 2

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

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

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”

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

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“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.”

“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.”

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

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

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”