Abraham Quotes

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

No one ever succeeds without the help of others.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

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.

What is life for? Life is for you.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

Every little deed counts.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

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

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Four score 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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.