Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Always bear in mind t...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

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

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

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

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Achievement has no color.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

A house divided cannot stand.