Famous Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
1. 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.
2. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
3. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
4. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea,
please bring me some coffee.
5. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices
have very few virtues.
6. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
7. Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
8. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
a man's character, give him power.
9. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him
that you are his sincere friend.
10. 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.
11. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is
trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
12. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
13. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a
strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
14. Whatever you are, be a good one.
15. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself
can spare time for personal contention.
16. People who like this sort of thing will find this the
sort of thing they like.
17. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.