Abraham Lincoln Quotes
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.
Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham, " he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend.""And I to see you dead.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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.
The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.
As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
