“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution and will regret it all your life.”Abraham Lincoln
“We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.”Abraham Lincoln
“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”Abraham Lincoln
“Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”Abraham Lincoln
“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”Abraham Lincoln
“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.”Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”Abraham Lincoln
“It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.”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.”Abraham Lincoln
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”Abraham Lincoln
“I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.”Abraham Lincoln
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”Abraham Lincoln
“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.”Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.”Abraham Lincoln
