Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
