Lincoln Quotes

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let us have faith that right makes right and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

My boisterous friend reminds me of a certain little steamboat that used to bustle and puff and wheeze about on the Ohio River. It had a five foot boiler and a seven foot whistle, biggest and prettiest whistle on any boat on the entire river. But every time they blew that big whistle it used all of the steam in the boiler and the boat just stopped. That's the way it is with my friend. Every time he opens his mouth the discussion comes to a stop.
- Abraham Lincoln

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done...
- Abraham Lincoln