Abraham Quotes
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other 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.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
"We trust Sir that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
