Kavisht
- Feb 16, 2020
- 2 min read

Abraham Lincoln: Best 23 Quotes For You

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.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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 endeavour 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.
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.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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.
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.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.