America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Truth is the daughter of Time. – Abraham Lincoln
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. – Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. – Abraham Lincoln
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin