Abraham Quotes

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

Money has no moral opinions.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.