This year, Presidents' Day is on February 17, 2025. And while it also happens to be a date closer to George Washington's birthday (Feb. 22), it's a day that we, as Americans, commemorate all of our past presidents—particularly the ones who paved the way for a greater tomorrow, such as Abraham Lincoln.As the 16th President of the United States, "honest Abe" served for only four short years—from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. But in that time, he made history as one of our nation's most impactful presidents. He said a lot of memorable and famous quotes along the way, too. Here are 115 of the best Abraham Lincoln quotes, perfect for Presidents' Day.Related: 50 U.S. Presidential Trivia Questions & Answers
115 Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Sayings
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1. "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." — Abraham Lincoln2. "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." — Abraham Lincoln3. "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." — Abraham Lincoln4. "Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." — Abraham Lincoln5. "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." — Abraham Lincoln6. "Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed." — Abraham Lincoln7. "Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent." — Abraham Lincoln8. "There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes." — Abraham Lincoln9. "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." — Abraham Lincoln10. "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." — Abraham Lincoln11. "Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves." — Abraham LincolnRelated: In His Own Words: 54 of Jimmy Carter's Most Memorable Quotes
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25. "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." — Abraham Lincoln
27. "If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again." — Abraham Lincoln
29. "I would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody." — Abraham Lincoln
31. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing." — Abraham Lincoln
33. "I have a congenital aversion to failure." — Abraham Lincoln
35. "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land." — Abraham Lincoln
37. "And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts." — Abraham Lincoln
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40. "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
42. "I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not." — Abraham Lincoln
44. "I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you, and that you may see me, and in the arrangement, I have the best of the bargain."
46. "This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." — Abraham Lincoln
48. "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." — Abraham Lincoln
50. "The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth." — Abraham Lincoln
52. "I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." — Abraham Lincoln
54. "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes." — Abraham Lincoln
56. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." — Abraham Lincoln
58. "In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book." — Abraham Lincoln
60. "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." — Abraham Lincoln
62. "The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked." — Abraham Lincoln
64. "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." — Abraham Lincoln
66. "I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me." — Abraham Lincoln
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69. "I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization." — Abraham Lincoln
71. "The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle." — Abraham Lincoln
73. "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
75. "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." — Abraham Lincoln
77. "I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace." — Abraham Lincoln
79. "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." — Abraham Lincoln
81. "I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me."— Abraham Lincoln
83. "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
85. "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." — Abraham Lincoln
87. "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." — Abraham Lincoln
89. "I do the very best I know how–the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end." — Abraham Lincoln
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91. "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." — Abraham Lincoln
93. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln
95. "Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." — Abraham Lincoln
97. "If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already." — Abraham Lincoln
99. "I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones." — Abraham Lincoln
101. "On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been. When we were the political slaves of King George and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that 'all men are created equal' a self-evident truth; but now, when we have grown fat and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim 'a self evident lie.'" — Abraham Lincoln
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104. "I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." — Abraham Lincoln
106. "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." — Abraham Lincoln
108. "In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man." — Abraham Lincoln
110. "Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief—resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment, you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer." — Abraham Lincoln
112. "Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling." — Abraham Lincoln
114. "Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense." — Abraham Lincoln
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