Quotes
Quotes - Lincoln
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
The Almighty has his own purposes.
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two-hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
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, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
