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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Abraham Lincoln
Ideas, Justice, Domes
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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

Abraham Lincoln
Bullying, Kids, Evil

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Abraham Lincoln
Constitution

Life is hard but so very beautiful

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Beautiful, Life Is Hard

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
Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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
Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Atheist, Humor
Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Trying, Entitlement

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

Abraham Lincoln
Lying, Home, People

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Abraham Lincoln
Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Us Veterans
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.86, Fordham Univ Press

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Abraham Lincoln
Commitment, Reality, Promise

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, Believe, Presidential

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Abraham Lincoln
Rights, Tyrants, Justice
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Choate, Francis F. Browne (2017). “LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate”, p.1246, Madison & Adams Press

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Sweat, Injustice

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Silence, Coward

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

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Abraham Lincoln
Sound, Libertarian, Prosperity

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, White Man, Long

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential
Speech, 19 May 1856

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Freedom, Taken
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Abraham Lincoln
Writing, Great Inventions, World
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.7, Library of America

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

Abraham Lincoln
Kindness, Long, Storm

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Abraham Lincoln
Heart, World, Impossible

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Abraham Lincoln
Helping Others, Stronger, Helping

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Abraham Lincoln
Trust, Illinois, People
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr