Quotes
Quotes - Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.
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.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.
Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.
