Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Horses

• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Horse, Men

  Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

• I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Minutes, Five

• I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Horse, War

• I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, War, Army

  Letter to George B. McClellan, 24 Oct. 1862

• By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Illustration, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.162, Fordham Univ Press

• Never change horses in midstream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patience, Horse, Never Change

• I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Horse, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln”

• Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Middle, Streams

• It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Politics, Easier

• I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, War, Civil War

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