Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

• civil rights
• slavery

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

• speech
• words
• ideas
• oratory

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

• virtue
• habit
• sin

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

• courage
• character
• self improvement
• independence

I will study and prepare and one day my chance will come.

• preparation

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

• criticism

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

• preparation
• time management

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

• force

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

• freedom
• slavery