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.
Abraham LincolnTags: lincoln-on-god
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham LincolnTags: inspirational
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham LincolnTags: labor
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Abraham LincolnMy father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
Abraham LincolnTags: leisure enterprise
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 purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.
Abraham LincolnTags: government us-presidents executive-powers separation-of-powers
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham LincolnTags: inaugural-address american-presidents us-presidents
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnTags: simile character appearances substance
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
Abraham LincolnEvery man's happiness is his own responsibility.
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