Best Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Democracy and Leadership:
1- “Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
2- “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
3- “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
4- “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
5- “The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
6- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
7- “Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
8- “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.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
9- “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
10- “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
11- “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
12- “You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
13- “Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
14- “It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
15- “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
16- “Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself” ~ Abraham Lincoln
17- “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
18- “Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
19- “Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
20- “Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
21- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
22- “Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
23- “If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
24- “We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name – liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names – liberty and tyranny.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
25- “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
26- “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
27- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
28- “We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
29- “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.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
30- “Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
31- “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry” ~ Abraham Lincoln
32- “Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
33- “Nothing is stronger than gentleness.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
34- “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
35- “You cannot fail unless you quit.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
36- “Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
37- “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
38- “When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn’t doing the exact same thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
39- “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
40- “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
41- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
42- “If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
43- “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
44- “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
45- “Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
46- “If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts” ~ Abraham Lincoln
47- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
48- “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
49- “Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
50- “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
