Abraham Lincoln Best Quotations

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river

We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.