3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
