Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. – Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. – Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. – Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. – Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. – Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. – Abraham Lincoln
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. – Abraham Lincoln
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. – Abraham Lincoln
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. – Abraham Lincoln
Lets 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 Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln
