Quote

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
Farmer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Postmaster
Statesperson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Honest Abe
A. Lincoln
President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Uncle Abe
Relations
Relation
Humor
Blood
Knavery
Flattery

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes I cannot see you.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We will make converts day by day we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Be excellent and party on dudes.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You can't help the poor by being one of them.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Lincoln called laughter the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age and he grew up, literally without education.
Abraham Lincoln