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Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Friendship

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

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

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Friendship, Leadership
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Best Friend, Clever

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Loss, Enemy
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.336, Library of America

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Friendship, Memories
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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 which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Heart, Winning
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.83, Library of America

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, World, Brilliant

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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
Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Attitude, Enemy

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Attitude, Power
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Enemy, President

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Dog, Glasses