Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Money

• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Money, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Selfish, Adversity

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Horse, War

• My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Father, Hug

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.232, Jazzybee Verlag

• The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Eagles, Gold

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.93, Stanford University Press

• As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Political, Wish

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

• Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Principles, Moral

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