President Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Biography

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.”

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

“After 40 every man gets the face he deserves.”

“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, and beer.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.”

“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”

“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

“We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God’s side.”

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”

“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

“People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

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

“I walk slow but I never walk back.”

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

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Abraham Lincoln Mother Quotes

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’

  Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better – quite happy – if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education…. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother’s knees… All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

  I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families–second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks…. My father … removed from Kentucky to … Indiana, in my eighth year…. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up…. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher … but that was all.

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 Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Democracy and Success

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” – Abraham Lincoln

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” – Abraham Lincoln

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work.” – Abraham Lincoln

“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

“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.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” – Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.” – Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure; permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” – Abraham Lincoln

“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, and beer.” – Abraham Lincoln

“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.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Life and Success

Airtract-Image”You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“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.”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“You can fool all the people some time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

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

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

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

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

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

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

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Abraham Lincoln Biography

Abraham Lincoln (February 12,1809 – April 15, 1861), height 6’ 4’,  16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 who led the nation through the American Civil War. He is consider as one of the best leader in history cause he had succeed in abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.

People exclaim their love for Abraham Lincoln to call him by some nick name  e.g. Father Abraham, The Great Emancipator, Uncle Abe etc. But I like to express my love to him calling him Uncle Abe. His speech of gettysburg is famous for words and it gave inspiration to all. On that he said”. This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.. that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from earth.”

Lincoln was christan but there is a debate about his beliefs. He believed that all men are equal.

Uncle Abe was a self educated person and became a lawyer, Wing Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. congressman from illinois. The crown name of Abraham Lincoln was made by Lincoln himself via hard work, in addition to hard work he was born into poverty in a log cabin. He is the man who I always keep pumped up.

Abraham faces on the penny, the most chep value coin in America, as being on the penny he is a lot familiar to all, almost every common man sees his face at least once a day. 

In 1853, the Union League of Philadelphia awarded a gold medal to Lincoln in 1863 and awarded him honorary membership in the same year. In 1861, he received honorary citizenship from the Republic of San Marino. In 1909, in the commemoration of Linclon’s 100th birthday his image was issued on the Lincoln penny, it was the first coin issued bearing a president’s image. 

Early life

Uncle Abe was the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Linchon and at that time they used to live in a one-room cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His formal schooling was limited to three brief periods in local schools, because he was used to doing work constantly to support his family.

In the early 19th century milk sickness claimed thousands of lives among the migrants of the midwest in the United States though it’s rare today. Due to milk sickness Nancy Linclon left 9 year old Abraham behind on October 5, 1818. Then Abraham got a stepmother as his father Thomas married Sarah Bush Jhonston, a widow with three children from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Abraham used to call his stepmother as ‘Mother’. Ten years later, Sarah died while giving birth to a stillborn son, on January 20, 1828.

In 1830,his family moved to Macon County in southern Illions, Lincoln had never neglected any job, he had worked as shopkeeper and a postmaster, though he didn’t like to do physical labour.

He is mostly seen to read the books, he was found of a book called Lessons in Elocution and began to practise public speaking from a tree stump. The position that Linclon achieved, reading books were the rudiments.

Education

Lincoln was a self-educated person; he mostly used his time in reading and for that his family treated him as a lazy person. But his stepmother had the acknowledgement that he did not enjoy physical labor but he rather enjoyed reading. Though he had itinerant teachers from schooling for less than 12 months aggregate. He preferred his life in reading and learning lifelong. HIs family, neighbors and schoolmates mention that he enjoys reading King James Bible, Aesop’s Fables, John Bunyan’s the Pilgrim’s Progress, Danial Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 

Lincoln was tall, strong, and athletic, and became adept at using an ax. He gained reputation for his strength and audacity after winning a wrestling match with the renowned leader of ruffians as “the Clary’s Grove boys”. 

In March 1830, Lincoln family fear’s another outbreak of Milk sickness, several members of the extended Lincoln family, including Tomas, moved west to Illinois, a free state, and they settled in Macon County.  In 1831, Thomas and other family prepared to move to a new homestead in Coles County, Illinois at that time Aberaham got struck out on his own. Lincoln made his home in New Salem, Illinois for six years. Lincoln and some friends took goods by flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana, there he was exposed first to slvaery. 

 On September 9, 1836 he got his law licence after passing an oral examination by a panel of practising attorneys. In April 1837 he enrolled to practise in supreme court. 

Marriage and children

When Abraham moved to New Salem he became friend with Anne Rutledge though she was engaged. The romance between them inspired them to poetry and polemics. Ann’s engagement then ended, possibilities are that being friends with Lincoln or anything can happen actually no one knows.But she died at the age of 22 and tragically contracted typhoid fever. Then Lincoln was stricken with grief, and his reaction has been taken as evidence,though it doesn’t have evidence.Though in public there are some debates about her existence.

Lincoln and Mary Todd, daughter of Robert Smith Todd, an American Lawyer, soldier, banker, businessman and politician, met in 1839 in springfield. Following year they got engaged. There wedding was so simple and it held on Springfield 

On November 4, 1842,Abraham and Mary Todd got married at Springfield, illions. At that time, Todd was 23 and Abraham was 33 in age. 

Abraham had four sons ( Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, Willam Wallance Lincoln, Tad Lincoln) and he wrote a letter to his son’s teacher which is renown for the words.

Road to politics 

Andrew jackson was the president of United states when Uncle abe took first step at politics, cause the lIncoln disagreed with the Jacksonoan’s view that government should be divorced from economic enterprise. “The legitimate object of government,” he was later to say, “is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but it can not do at all, or can not do so well, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.” Among the prominent politicians of his time, he admired Henry Clay and Danial Webster. Lincoln associated himself with the party of Clay and Webster the Whigs. 

Lincoln was elected as a Whig member of the Illinois State Legislature for four times(1834 to 1840). When he was legislature he demonstrated that, though opposed to slavery, he was no abolishment. He found an issue and a candidate in the Mexican War and with his “spot resolutions,” he challenged the statement of President James K. Polk had started the war by shedding American blood upon American soil. Among the members of his party he voted to condemn Polk and the war while also voting for supplies to carry it on. At the same time, he laboured for the nomination and election of the war hero Zachary Taylor. Lincoln accepted to be named as commissioner as the reward of his campaign labour, but it was all disappointed for him.At 40 he was totally frustrated from political career. 

Five years of Lincoln’s political crisis gave him a chance to reemerge and rise to statesmanship, in 1854 his political rival Stephen A. Douglas maneuveerd through Congrss a bill for reopening the the entire Louisiana Purchaces to slavery and allowing the settelers of kansas and Nebraska with “popular sovereignty” to decide for themselves weather to permit slaveholding in those territories. The Kansas-Nebraska Act provoked violent opposition in Illinois and  the other states of the old Northwest and it gave rise to the Republican party while speeding the whig party on its way to disintegration. Lincoln became a Republician and Lincoln was determined that he, not Douglas, should be the republican leader of his state and section. Both Lincoln and Douglas were shrewd debaters and accomplished stump speakers, though they could hardly have been more different in style and appearance. The debate between them was published in 1860, together with a biography of Lincoln in a best selling book that Lincoln markets himself compiled and marketed as the part of his campaign. At that period of time Lincoln and Dougals were politically hit and at the same time Lincoln gave a famous speech in which he said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”  

In the end, Lincoln lost the election to Dougals and he was deeply depressed. Then Lincoln had gained national recognition and was mentioned as a presidential prospect for 1860. 

On may 18, 1860, Lincoln was nominated on the third ballot at the republican National Convention in Chicago, as he and his friends had made proper preparation. He put aside his law practise and gave full concentration over his campaign. On his “main object” he had written “hedge against divisions in the republican ranks,’ ‘ With the Republican united, the Democrats divided, and a total of four candidates in the field, he carried the election on November 6. Though he received no votes from the Deep South and no more than 40 out of 100 in the country as a whole, the popular votes were distributed that he won a clear and decisive majority in the electoral college.

After the Lincoln’s victory, the state of south Carolina proclaimed its withdrawal from the Union, they demand various compromises and most important of that was guaranteeing slavery forever in the states where it already existed and dividing the territories between slavery and freedom. Lincoln feared that a territoural devison, by sanctioning the principal of slavery extainsion, would only encourage planter imperialists to seek new slave territory south of the American border and thus would “put us again on the highbord to a slave empire. So Lincoln wrote privately, “I am inflexible.” Then six additional states seceded and, with South Carolina, combined to form the Confederate States of America. And the problem took its appearance at the time of civil war on April 12, 1861. 

Lincoln was the Commander-in-Chief during the civil War, he was seen ill-prepared at the comparison of the southern part in the surface war at beginning, he didn’t had that much experience of combat though he had served as a captain of militia during Black Hawk War.And his famous speech of gettysburg published on November 19,1863 inspired a lot amount of people.Then he had changed his war technique and took the taste of victory on April 9,1865..

Lincoln’s great Achievements

At the time of Lincoln’s presidency, the country was divided into the northern and southern part, in the disagreement of black slavery; the north was still the United States but the southern part declared them as Confederate States of America. Civil war took place at then Abraham led the united states to victory and following his famous Emancipation Proclamation, he enacted measures to abolish slavery. 

Lincoln was correct to oppose the slavery. Linclon felt that slavery in united states must come to end and he optimize his thoughts in realization and when the war was over then it was crutial to reubite the union and the confederacy back in one united states, but he did it!

Death

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a famous stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.

He was shot in the head by Booth’s Philadelphia Deringer and the following day Lincoln died at 7.22am, in the Patterson house opposite the theater.