Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
