“The 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.”Abraham Lincoln
“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”Abraham Lincoln
“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”Abraham Lincoln
“Every blade of grass is a study, and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”Abraham Lincoln
“When you lack interest in the case, the work will very likely lack skill and diligence in its performance.”Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”Abraham Lincoln
“If you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.”Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”Abraham Lincoln
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”Abraham Lincoln
“If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”Abraham Lincoln
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”Abraham Lincoln
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”Abraham Lincoln
“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”Abraham Lincoln
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”Abraham Lincoln
“The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.”Abraham Lincoln
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.”Abraham Lincoln
