“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”Abraham Lincoln
“Nor must Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present — not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.”Abraham Lincoln
“Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, let it be my proudest plume not that I was the last to desert her, but that I never deserted her.”Abraham Lincoln
“He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just — that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.”Abraham Lincoln
“The ant who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest will furiously defend the fruit of his labor against whatever robber assails him. So plain that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master does constantly know that he is wronged.”Abraham Lincoln
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity, and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and, theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”Abraham Lincoln
“God bless the Methodist Church — bless all the churches — and blessed be God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.”Abraham Lincoln
“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”Abraham Lincoln
“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”Abraham Lincoln
“When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism.”Abraham Lincoln
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.”Abraham Lincoln
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”Abraham Lincoln
“Military glory — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood; that serpent's eye that charms to destroy.”Abraham Lincoln
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.”Abraham Lincoln
“It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.”Abraham Lincoln
