Abraham Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness, ’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

A house divided cannot stand.

Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Lincoln matured best in sorrow.

Achievement has no COLOR.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.