When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, 'I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.' (Abraham Lincoln)
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. (Abraham Lincoln)
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. (Abraham Lincoln)
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet. (Abraham Lincoln)
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. (Abraham Lincoln)
Friends, I agree with you in Providence but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. (Abraham Lincoln)
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. (Abraham Lincoln)
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. (Abraham Lincoln)
I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down... (Abraham Lincoln)
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)
Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but, my friend, these I rec (Abraham Lincoln)
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. (Abraham Lincoln)
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. (Abraham Lincoln)
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 while crossing streams.' (Abraham Lincoln)
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends. (Abraham Lincoln)