Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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.

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.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'