Has beens Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

— Abraham Lincoln

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically,…

— Abraham Lincoln

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

— Abraham Lincoln

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would…

— Abraham Lincoln

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to…

— Abraham Lincoln

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have…

— Abraham Lincoln

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world…

— Abraham Lincoln

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been…

— Abraham Lincoln

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social…

— Abraham Lincoln

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea,…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for…

— Abraham Lincoln

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny…

— Abraham Lincoln

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some…

— Abraham Lincoln

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered…

— Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…

— Abraham Lincoln

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no…

— Abraham Lincoln

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being…

— Abraham Lincoln

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity;…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those…

— Abraham Lincoln

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their…

— Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…

— Abraham Lincoln

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose…

— Abraham Lincoln

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than…

— Abraham Lincoln

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem…

— Abraham Lincoln