Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trail of a thousand years.
All honor to Jefferson – to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document (Declaration of Independence), an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there, that […]
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence… I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment […]
The Declaration of Independence was formed by the representatives of American liberty from thirteen states… Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines which conflict with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence, if you have listened to suggestion which would take from its grandeur, and mutilate the symmetry of its proportions… let […]
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (No authentic record exists of Lincoln saying it. It first was attributed to him by Alexander McClure in 1904.)
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
To keep silent when we should protest, makes cowards of men.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
