Abraham Quotes
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.
A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.
Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.
Abraham, " he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend.""And I to see you dead.
It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth
The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.
Man is most free when he is most guided.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels.
God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.
Most principles are limp until they are tested.
Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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.
Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
