If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. Abraham Lincoln More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln More Quotes From Abraham Lincoln You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality. Abraham Lincoln indispensable valuable quality No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. Abraham Lincoln administration law may The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence. Abraham Lincoln support land people I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me Abraham Lincoln duty belief might To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. Abraham Lincoln evil spring civilization There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. Abraham Lincoln president philosophy past I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain. Abraham Lincoln platforms may war Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Abraham Lincoln light honor war You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. Abraham Lincoln ambitious doe war It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives. Abraham Lincoln government war children I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. Abraham Lincoln civil-war war country I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. Abraham Lincoln life father children My God! My God! What will the country say? Abraham Lincoln civil-war war country There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end. Abraham Lincoln sides war people This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions. Abraham Lincoln way-to-live office struggle As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. Abraham Lincoln reading wish book If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss. Abraham Lincoln no-friends pleasure loss Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her. Abraham Lincoln desert liberty country Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln patriotic 4th-of-july america A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Abraham Lincoln women hurt knows
