3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln 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.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
