Abraham Quotes

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

The world's a scene of changes.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

The will of God prevails.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.