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Abraham Lincoln Quote

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strenghten the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot further brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."

"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung" Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it."

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."

"Nothing will divert me from my purpose."

"The probablity that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement"

"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

"Whatever you are, be  a good one."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side..."

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiam."

"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."

" I have alway found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

"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, and beer."

"I laugh because I must not cry. that is all, that is all"

"You cannot escape the responsiblity of tomorrow by evading it today."

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."



Abraham Lincoln His Essential Wisdom

You have been called upon to make a terrible sacrifice for the Union, and a visit to that spot, I fear, will open your wounds afresh. But oh! my dear sir, if we had reached the end of such sacrifices, and had nothing left for us to do but to place garlands on the graves of those who have already fallen, we could give thanks even amidst our tears; but when I think of the sacrifices of life yet to be offered and the hearts and homes yet to be made desolate before this dreadful war, so wickedly forced upon us, is over, my heart is like lead within me, and I feel at times, like hiding in deep darkness.

- Reply to a man who told Lincoln that his only son was lost at Gettysburg while Lincoln was on board the train taking him there to deliver his address, November 18, 1863 from Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguihed Men of His Time, edited by Allen Thorndike Rice

Taken through the glass with cell phone Brookgreen Garden South Carolina

Photograph Brookgreen Garden South Carolina