“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
“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
“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”Abraham Lincoln
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”Abraham Lincoln
“It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.”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
“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
“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
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”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
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”Abraham Lincoln
