Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "

Abraham Lincoln

Related Quotes:

" I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

" I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

Abraham Lincoln

" We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?' "

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

" I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. "

Abraham Lincoln

" No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. "

Abraham Lincoln

" As our case is new, we must think and act anew. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. "

Abraham Lincoln

" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Don't swap horses in crossing a stream. "

Abraham Lincoln

" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

Abraham Lincoln

" All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

" If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. "

Abraham Lincoln

" To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. "

Abraham Lincoln

" It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. "

Abraham Lincoln