Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Sayings (Page 13)

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.”

“The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”

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

“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.”

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.”