My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
Abraham LincolnEducation does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Abraham LincolnHe can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham LincolnThe 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, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Abraham LincolnLet not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham LincolnTake all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
Abraham LincolnBut for this book we could not know right from wrong.
Abraham LincolnRepublicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham LincolnTags: inspirational politics religion political-parties
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Abraham LincolnTags: books originality unique
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
Abraham LincolnTags: ancient-wisdom impermanence
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