Quote

I am nothing, truth is everything.

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
Truth
Everything
Nothing

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The severest justice may not always be the best policy
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I have a congenital aversion to failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The political horizon looks dark and lowering but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
Abraham Lincoln