No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention. Abraham Lincoln More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln More Quotes From Abraham Lincoln A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands. Abraham Lincoln fatechildrenhands Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers. Abraham Lincoln politicianpresidentdrinking And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government. Abraham Lincoln governmentagework [T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression. Abraham Lincoln blockstrugglemen I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. Abraham Lincoln drinkingbelievefall There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. Abraham Lincoln loyaltyimportantmen A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. Abraham Lincoln majorityprinciplespeople A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. Abraham Lincoln readinggivingbook When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Abraham Lincoln passionfightingmen As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. Abraham Lincoln lastsbreakmen The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. Abraham Lincoln presidentialgodlysafety The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. Abraham Lincoln governmentseapeople But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches. Abraham Lincoln governmentreligiousrunning Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Abraham Lincoln militarysleepgiving The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. Abraham Lincoln partytimewar No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. Abraham Lincoln worknumberscountry You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. Abraham Lincoln libertarian-partylibertypolitics Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln feetinspiringmotivational All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other. Abraham Lincoln hateliarsmen Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Abraham Lincoln succeedadversityfailing
