Abraham Lincoln

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

The world has never had a good definition_x000D_ of the word liberty

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.