Quote

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

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
Genius
Blood
Seems
Intemperance
Ever
Sucking
Drunkenness
Delighted
Demon
Generosity

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Never let your correspondence fall behind.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
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
I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Some day I shall be President.
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
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
Abraham Lincoln