Quotes & Sayings About Friendship Abraham Lincoln

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?" — Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. — Abraham Lincoln

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life. — Abraham Lincoln

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world. — Abraham Lincoln

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up. — Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Friendship is the start for what you call love. — Abraham Lincoln

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side ... allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only. — Abraham Lincoln

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. — Abraham Lincoln

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? — Abraham Lincoln

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 which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason. — Abraham Lincoln

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