More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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.
If you have never failed you have never lived.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.