01c. 1837 ADWhen you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
02c. 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 their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
03c. 1837 ADThat some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
04c. 1837 ADBut in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
07c. 1837 ADThe best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
08c. 1837 ADThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
10c. 1837 ADI feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
11c. 1837 ADI desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
12c. 1837 ADA woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
13c. 1837 ADLincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
14c. 1837 ADDiscourage 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
15c. 1837 ADExtemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
16c. 1837 ADIf 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.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
17c. 1837 ADIf there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
18c. 1837 ADMy dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
19c. 1837 ADI hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
20c. 1837 ADI have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
21c. 1837 ADIf once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
22c. 1837 ADAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
23c. 1837 ADMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
24c. 1837 ADSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
