Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the govenment whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Fourscore and seven years ago...

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. 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 you life.

So true it is that man proposes and God disposes.

Must is the word... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.

Both [North and South] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine .

She won't think anything about it.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Lincoln on Grant: He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

All that I am or Hope to be I owe to My Mother

From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

If at any point on or in the vicinity of the military line, which is now used between the City Philadelphia and the City of Washington, via Perryville, Annapolis City, and Annapolis Junction, you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety, you, personally or through the officer in command at the point where the resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.