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Crying
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I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Death
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Die when I may, 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
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Deception/Lying
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
-Abraham Lincoln
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Democracy
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-Abraham Lincoln
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
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...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
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Determination
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Differences
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-Abraham Lincoln, attributed
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Dogs
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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.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Dreams
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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Drinking
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Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Duty
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Education
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated--quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
-Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, September 30, 1859
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Emotions
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Enemy, Enemies
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The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Enjoyment
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Enthusiasm
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Equality
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Fourscore 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.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Excellence
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Experience
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Face, Faces
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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
-Abraham Lincoln
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln
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Books by and about Abraham Lincoln