01c. 1837 ADIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
02c. 1837 ADI 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
03c. 1837 ADThere is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
04c. 1837 ADIf the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
06c. 1837 ADLets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
07c. 1837 ADThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
08c. 1837 ADI am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
09c. 1837 ADIn this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
10c. 1837 ADGovernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
11c. 1837 ADThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
12c. 1837 ADThis 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
13c. 1837 ADThe people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
14c. 1837 ADWe here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
16c. 1837 ADThe things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
17c. 1837 ADAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
18c. 1837 ADGold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
19c. 1837 ADOur 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
20c. 1837 ADMy 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 some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
21c. 1837 ADThe legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
22c. 1837 ADAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
23c. 1837 ADAny people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
24c. 1837 ADYou cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
