Quotes
Quotes - Lincoln
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Lincoln.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
