Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?… Truth and… justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen; he will be good but god knows When. (Written in a child’s copy book.)
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 do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land.
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
We must disenthrall ourselves from the past. Otherwise it becomes a barrier to progress.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.
