Abraham Lincoln Man Quotations

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

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.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

Human-nature will not change.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.