More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
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.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
