01c. 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. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
02c. 1837 ADMust a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
03c. 1837 ADThe legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
04c. 1837 ADThe 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
05c. 1837 ADA house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
06c. 1837 ADMost folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
07c. 1837 ADDo not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good lift.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
09c. 1837 ADWith 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
10c. 1837 ADDo not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
11c. 1837 ADI have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
14c. 1837 ADHold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
15c. 1837 ADYou can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
16c. 1837 ADThis struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
17c. 1837 ADThe 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
18c. 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 and for the people shall not perish from the earth.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
21c. 1837 ADI have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
22c. 1837 ADHonest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
