Authors:

Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 21

All Quotes 4th Of July Abuse Acceptance Adoption Adversity Age Alcohol Ambition Animal Rights Anxiety Appearance Arguing Army Art Atheism Atheist Attitude Basketball Belief Bible Business Change Character Charity Children Choices Church Civil Rights Civil War Community Compassion Compromise Confidence Conflict Constitution Country Courage Creation Criticism Critics Death Democracy Depression Desire Determination Difficulty Doubt Drinking Duty Earth Education Effort Encouragement Equality Evil Excellence Exercise Failing Failure Fairness Faith Family Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Funny Future Genius Gettysburg Giving Giving Up Glory God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Happiness Hard Work Hate Heart Heaven Hell Helping Others History Home Honesty Honor Hope House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Independence Injustice Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Judging Judgment Justice Killing Kindness Labor Labor Day Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liars Liberty Life Loss Love Loyalty Lying Mankind Marriage Memories Mercy Military Money Motivational Nature Office Opportunity Oppression Parenting Passion Past Patience Peace Perseverance Personality Philosophy Planning Pleasure Politics Positive Power Prayer Pride Procrastination Progress Prosperity Purpose Quality Reading Reality Rebellion Recovery Religion Reputation Responsibility Revolution Running Sacrifice Safety School Security Self Love Selfishness Silence Slavery Sleep Society Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Success Suffering Teaching Temperance Time Today Trust Trust In God Truth Understanding Unity Victory Violence Virtue Voting War Weed Wife Winning Wisdom Work Writing

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Attributed reply to the South Carolina Commissioners.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1392, Jazzybee Verlag

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.92, Library of America

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.357, Transaction Publishers