I leave you the best phrases of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth president of the United States and responsible for the abolition of slavery, strengthening the federal government and modernizing the economy.
You may also be interested in these quotes of freedom or these of justice.
-I will prepare and one day my opportunity will come.
-In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is life in your years.
-Nothing in this world is impossible for a willing heart.
-I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I did not have the heart to disappoint him.
-My great concern is not if you have failed, but if you are happy with your failure.
-It is difficult to make a man miserable as long as he feels that he is worthy of himself.
-You can lose everything in life, but not dreams.
-We can complain because the rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because the thorns have roses.
-We should be too big to take the offense and too noble to give it.
-Almost all people are as happy as they decide to be.
-Almost all men can bear adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by avoiding it today.
-Everything I have learned, I have learned from books.
-Don't do anything for anyone who can do it for himself.
-I am nothing, the truth is everything.
-Laughter can be used to calm the mind and get rid of terrible thoughts.
-When I do good, I feel good. When I do wrong, I feel bad. That is my religion.
-Don't worry about not being recognized, but fight to deserve to be recognized.
-If friendship is your weakest point, you are the most powerful person in the world.
-Things can come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hurry.
-If we could first know where we are and where we are going, we could better judge what to do and how to do things.
-The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
-Teach children so that it is not necessary to teach adults.
-Too old to cry, too young to laugh.
-All men are born equal, but this is the last time they are.
-I think people should fight for what they believe and only for what they believe.
-Often it takes more courage to dare to do the right thing than to fear doing the wrong thing.
-You cannot give strength to the weak by weakening the strong; You cannot help the poor by ruining the rich.
-Those who seek evil in people will surely find it.
-Between love and violence, love always ends up triumphing.
-Make sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
-Writing is the greatest invention in the world.
-You can know the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
-Man has never found a definition for the word freedom.
-A nation that does not honor its heroes will not last long.
-Measuring words is not necessarily sweetening your expression but having anticipated and accepted the consequences of them.
-The probability that we can fail in the fight should not stop us from supporting a just cause in which we believe.
-Always keep in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
-Don't be afraid of failure, it will not make you weaker, but stronger.
-Better to remain silent and let them think you are a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt.
-The nation is stronger by the unity of its children and family members than by its military might
-The best part of your life consists of your friendships.
-There may be glory in failure and despair in success.
-Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators
-The happiness of each man is his own responsibility.
-If you want to win an adept for your cause, convince him first that you are his sincere friend.
-Don't be fooled. Revolutions do not go backwards.
-By not wanting to be a slave, I don't want to be a master either.
-I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned with who will be his grandson.
-Hypocrite: the man who murdered his parents and then asked for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
-Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the ax.
-I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
-There are moments in the life of every politician, in which the best thing to do is not to part the lips.
-A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall.
-To alleviate the anguish of another is to forget one's own.
-I don't think much of a man who is no wiser today than he was yesterday.
-You have to do your own growth, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-There are no bad images, it's just how your face looks sometimes.
-The vote is stronger than the bullet.
-The philosophy of the school classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.
-The government of the people, by the people and for the people, should not perish from the Earth.
-Those who deny freedom to others do not deserve it for themselves.
-Touch is the ability to describe to others how they see themselves.
-I like to see a man proud of the place where he lives. I like to see a man who lives so that his place is proud of him.
-No man is good enough to rule another man without the consent of the other.
-The achievement has no color.
-The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-I have always found that mercy brings richer fruits than strict justice.
-Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-It is easier to repress the first whim than to satisfy the others that follow.
-America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we fail and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroy ourselves.
-All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angelic mother.
-The books serve to show a man that his original thoughts are not new at all.
-He has the right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-The way a young man can grow is to improve himself in everything he can, without suspecting that someone wants to hinder him.
-Everyone likes a compliment.
-I don't like that man. I must know him better.
-A friend is one who has the same enemies that you have.
-Everyone wants to live long but nobody wants to be old.
-No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
-The things I want to know are in the books; my best friend is the man who will give me the book that I have not read.
-God undoubtedly loves humble people; otherwise it would not have made them so numerous.
-Whatever you are, be a good one.
-Avoid popularity if you want to have peace.
-The important principles can and should be inflexible.
-The people will save their government, if the government itself allows it.
-I don't care much about the religion of a man whose cat and dog are not the best for him.
-It is better to give way to a dog than to be bitten by it.
-You can fool people some time and some people some time, but you cannot fool all people all the time.
-The dogmas of the serene past do not agree with the tumultuous present.
-Sir, my concern is not if God is on our side; my main concern is to be next to God, because God is always right.
-Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-Giving freedom to slaves we assure it to the free.
-It has been my experience that people who do not have vices have very few virtues.
-Some day I'll be president.
-The most altruistic man is the most selfish.
-Public opinion in this country is everything.
-I can do more generals, but horses cost money.
-To wish immortality is to wish the perpetuation of a great mistake.
-A state in which freedom and slavery coexist cannot last.
-What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-You can make any quote sound meaningful by putting the name of a famous person after it.
-When I hear someone fervently defend slavery, I feel a strong urge to see him live it personally.
-Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
-This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people that inhabit it. Every time they tire of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it or their revolutionary right to dismember and topple it.
-I see the near future; an approaching crisis that unnerves me and makes me tremble for the security of my country.
-I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me my whole life.
-I am an abolitionist, one of the powerful.
-The best and greatest art in the future will be to make a small space, a comfortable place to live.
-Women, I'm afraid, are the only people I thought would never hurt me.
"Didn't I defeat my enemies the moment I made them my friends?"
-If I am killed, then I will die once, but living with the constant threat of death is like dying over and over again.
-As a nation, we begin by declaring that "all men are created equal." Now we practically read it: "all men are created equal, except blacks."
-The probability that we will fall into the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause that we believe is just. It will not dissuade me.
-The way of acting of the human being can be modified to a certain extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
-Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, because it is the only safeguard of our freedoms. And I do not just appeal to Democrats, but to all who love these great and true principles.
-Love is the chain to tie a child to his father.
-I am glad to know that there is a working system in which the worker can attack if he wishes. I want God to make such a system prevail throughout the world.
-If we don't have friends, we don't have pleasure. And if we have them, we will surely lose them, then we will be doubly sorry for the loss.
-In great disputes each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. They both may be doing it, but one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.
-The best thing is not to exchange horses while crossing the river.
-What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and already tested, against the new and not yet tested?
-The only victory that we can call complete will be that which proclaims that there is not a slave or a drunkard on the face of God's green Earth.
-I'm not used to the language of praise.
-Stay with the one who remains correct. Stay with him for as long as it is the right thing to do, and separate from him when he acts in the wrong way.