Abraham Quotes

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

Experience is of particulars only.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

The last love is the most lasting of loves

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Some day I shall be President.

This nation under God

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

My God! My God! What will the country say?