Abraham Lincoln Quotes

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out. It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion... The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle. Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs. All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth. 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. Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will. Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure. Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one. The blessing always comes back to the door of the author. Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket? I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life. I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed. Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life! I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter. 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. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes! Shall we stop this bleeding? Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into? It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay. Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go. If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams. Everybody likes compliment. It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.