Important Quotes from the 16th President of the United States Mr. Abraham Lincoln

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

 “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

“I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.”

 “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“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 their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.”

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

 “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“I have a congenital aversion to failure.”

 “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.”

 “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

 “And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”

“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”