Abraham Lincoln

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

Najlepszą rzeczą w przyszłości jest to, że nadchodzi w tempie jednego dnia na raz.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. . . . We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent

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

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Po czterdziestym roku życia każdy jest już odpowiedzialny za wygląd swojej twarzy.

Ludzie są dokładnie tak szczęśliwi jak myślą, że są. (Przypisywane)

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

You can fool some of the people all the time,and all of the people some time,but you cannot fool all people all the time.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the lord makes so many of them.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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

Polityk jest odpowiedzialny za statek, nie za fale.

Polityk jest odpowiedzialny za statek, nie za fale.

Tytoń to takie cuchnące ziele z ogniem na jednym końcu i durniem na drugim.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.

Nie frapuje mnie to, czy Bóg jest po naszej stronie, ale czy my jesteśmy po stronie Boga.

I am not so much concerned whether God is on our side as whether we are on God's side.

Mów prawdę, a nie będziesz miał tyle do zapamiętania.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.