亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国政治家，第16任总统在其总统任内，美国爆发了内战，史称南北战争。林肯击败了南方分离*，废除了奴隶制度，维护了国家的统一。但就在内战结束后不久，林肯不幸遇刺身亡。他是第一位遭到刺杀的美国总统，更是一位出身贫寒的伟大总统。
在他有生之年写出来很多优秀的名言。下面是亚伯拉罕·林肯的警世名言英文版：
1、Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
2、America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
3、Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
4、Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
5、Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
6、All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
7、In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
8、Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
9、You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
10、Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
11、Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
12、This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
13、A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
14、I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
15、We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
16、Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
17、A house divided against itself cannot stand.
18、Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
19、Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
以上就是美国总统林肯的部分名言，有兴趣的可以尝试着翻译一下，看看你的英文水平有多高！