Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Fighting

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.200, Fordham Univ Press

• I can't spare this man, he fights!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Men

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

• The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, War, Fighting

• There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Fighting, Wife

• I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fighting, People

• IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Negotiating, Ifs

• I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

• The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
  
  The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
  
  The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Enemy, Way

• When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Men, Bees

• . . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Fighting, Politics

• Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.43, Penguin

• But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Fighting, Past

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Complete Works”

• But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Conquer, Ends

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Wildside Press LLC

• You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.291, Fordham Univ Press

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