Thoughtful Men Must Feel That The Fate Of Civilization
Upon This Continent Is Involved In The Issue Of Our Contest.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
If Once You Forfeit The Confidence Of Your Fellow Citizens, You Can Never Regain Their Respect And Esteem
How Many Legs Does A Dog Have If You Call The Tail A Leg? Four. Calling A Tail A Leg Doesn’t Make It A Leg.
Am I Not Destroying My Enemies When I Make Friends Of Them
Avoid Popularity If You Would Have Peace
Give Me Six Hours To Chop Down A Tree And I will Spend The First Four Sharpening The Axe.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them.Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all in their separate and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought n.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint
I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the whole nation for those of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Letter to Horace Greeley. August 22, 1862 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
Reply to a clergyman who said to Lincoln that he hoped 'the Lord was on our side.' I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that this nation should be on the LORD'S side.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'.
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of the consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saves immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, 'I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.'