“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
God“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.”
History“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
God“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.”
History“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
Life“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Time“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
Good“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.”
Faith“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Best“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
Best“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Religion“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Life“I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
Best“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
War“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
Best“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Experience“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Life“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.”
Government“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
Best“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Good“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
Best“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.”
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