American politician and 16th President of the United States from 1861 to 1865, Abraham Lincoln was the first member of the Republican Party to be elected to this position. A man who went down in history as the person responsible for abolishing slavery in the United States from which we now review his best quotes and phrases.
The best quotes of Abraham Lincoln
Deeply religious and staunch abolitionist, yet moderate, his election as president will trigger the Civil War in which the slave states of the South will leave the Union. However, under his rule, he abolished slavery, and the North ended up emerging victorious from the conflict at the end of an unprecedented human and industrial mobilization. He was assassinated in 1865, when the war ended, and he will not see the complete reunification of the country.
These are some of the phrases that Lincoln left for posterity:
- “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
- Better to be quiet and look stupid than to open your mouth and dispel doubts.
- “A ballot is stronger than a rifle bullet.”
- “You can’t help the poor by ruining the rich.”
- “Don’t change your horse in the middle of the river.”
- “Do not be afraid of failure, it will not make you weaker, but stronger.”
- “Most people are as happy as they choose to be.”
- “Whatever you do, do it well”.
- “What I want to know first of all is not whether he has failed, but whether he has come to terms with his failure.”
- Always remember that your own resolve to succeed is more important than anything else.
- “Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.”
- “No man has enough memory to succeed in lying.”
- “Most of us can endure adversity, but if you really want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
- “All men are born equal, but this is the last time they are.”
- Just as I would not want to be a slave, I would not want to be a master. This is my conception of democracy. «
- “The probability of losing in the fight should not deter us from supporting a cause that we believe is just.”
- “If slavery is not bad, nothing is bad.”
- Give me six hours to cut down a tree, I’ll spend four hours preparing my ax.
- “It is easier to suppress the first whim than to satisfy all those who follow it.”
- You can fool everyone for a while. You can fool some all the time. But you can’t fool everyone all the time.
- “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you.”
- “The books give us the opportunity to discover that our ideas were not so original.”
- “In the end, what matters is not the years of life, but the life of the years.”
- “The loss of an enemy does not compensate for the loss of a friend.”
- “By giving freedom to slaves, we ensure that of free men.”
- “God prefers ordinary people, that’s why he has done so much.”
- “Knowledge is the best investment you can make.”
