The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator. Lincoln AbrahamЧитать онлайн книгу.

      The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion.

      I bring a heart true to the work.

      The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well.

      Most certainly I intend no injustice to any one, and if I have done any I deeply regret it.

      With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

      Action in the crisis of a nation must accord with its necessities, and therefore can seldom be confined to precedent.

      You can't put a long sword in a short scabbard.

      "I have made it a rule of my life," said the old parson, "not to cross Fox River until I get to it."

      It is sometimes well to be humble.

      Don't let joy carry you into excesses.

      Liberty is your birthright.

      If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or government will cease.

      Learn the laws and obey them.

      It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men.

      It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.

      When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, better let him run.

      Whatever God designs, He will do for me yet.

      Quarrel not at all.

      Let no opportunity of making a mark escape.

      I want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases with women.

      I should rejoice to be spared the labor of a contest, but being in I shall go it thoroughly.

      I intend discourtesy to no one.

      The doctrine of self-government is right – absolutely and eternally right.

      This government is expressly charged with the duty of providing for the general welfare.

      We are not bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to reject all progress, all improvement.

      Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

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       The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which we deem to be just.

      You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

      He has abundant talents – quite enough to occupy all his time without devoting any to temper.

      I do not argue – I beseech you to make the argument for yourself.