Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

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

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others