Human nature will not change. In any great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to […]
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
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.
The 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, so we must think anew and act anew.
