With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – 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
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln