I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThose who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
ABRAHAM LINCOLNLet us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNCharacter is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe best way to predict your future is to create it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNNo man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNBe with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNNothing will divert me from my purpose.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN