America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln
I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all. – Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. – Abraham Lincoln
It was the hour of four in the afternoon, and already in hillside homesteads the day was nearly done. There was everywhere an air of that sweet, old-fashioned leisure which the world has nearly lost. It lingered in the slant sunlight that threw shadows across the winding road… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907