Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Die meisten Menschen sind so glücklich, wie sie sein wollen.

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.

We cannot escape history.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

Mensen zijn even gelukkig als ze besluiten te zijn.

September 22nd. [1860] (To Mrs. M. J. Green) Your kind congratulatory letter of August was received in due course, and should have been answered sooner. The truth is I have never corresponded much with ladies; and hence I postpone writing letters to them, as a business which I do not understand. I can only say now I thank you for the good opinion you express of me, fearing, at the same time, I may not be able to maintain it through life.

Chúng ta không nên k?t án ng??i khác ?? chính mình không b? k?t án.

Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be.

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.

December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

??ng ch? trích h?. Vì có th?, chúng ta s? hành xá»­ nhÆ° th? trong hoàn c?nh tÆ°Æ¡ng tá»±.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.

Hãy cho tôi 6 gi? ?? ??n h? má»™t cái cây. Tôi s? dùng 4 gi? ??u tiên ?? mài rìu

If the do has the can, and the ifs possess the butts, then the has can can the can in the if's butt, and the delicate walnut shell that is the universe shall be sundered, and the Prepositional Pronouns will break free from their shackles, and the when's shall rule the world

A chair that reclines is mighty fine.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." ?