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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

«Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.»
«Knavery and flattery are blood relations.»
«A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people»
«We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi»
«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»
«The Almighty has His own purposes»
«I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.»
«If you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him little, that little let him enjoy.»
«The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.»
«All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Speech | Keywords: clung