1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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

If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.