Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Citaten, Zinnen en Teksten

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Citaten, Zinnen en TekstenAbraham Lincoln was de 16de president van de Verenigde Staten. Hij diende van 1861 tot aan zijn dood in 1865. Lincoln was de eerste president van de Verenigde Staten die tijdens zijn ambtsperiode werd vermoord. Je vind hier mooie George Abraham Lincoln quotes, citaten, zinnen en teksten voor Facebook, Twitter, Skype, WhatsApp, SMS, etc.



  • A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
  • A house divided against itself cannot stand.
  • All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
  • All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
  • All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
  • Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
  • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
  • 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.
  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
  • At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
  • Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
  • Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
  • Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
  • Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
  • Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
  • 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.
  • Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
  • Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
  • 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.
  • Everybody likes a compliment.
  • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
  • 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.
  • I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
  • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
  • I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
  • I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
  • I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
  • I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
  • I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
  • I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
  • I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
  • I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
  • I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
  • I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
  • If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
  • If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
  • If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
  • In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  • It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
  • Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
  • Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
  • Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
  • Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
  • My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
  • My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  • No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
  • No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
  • Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
  • Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
  • That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
  • That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
  • The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
  • The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
  • The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
  • The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
  • The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
  • The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
  • The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
  • The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
  • The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
  • These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
  • Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
  • This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
  • We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
  • Whatever you are, be a good one.
  • When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
  • When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
  • You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
  • You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
  • You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.


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