quotes by Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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.

I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.