More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.