Quote

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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
Wise
Public
Politics
Individual
Good
Statesmanship
Meanness
Employment
Honest

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
All that harms labor is treason to America.
Abraham Lincoln