![]() If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. It will become all one thing or all the other. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. “A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I will prepare and some day my chance will come. What I have done since then is pretty well known. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. Welcome, or unwelcome, agreeable, or disagreeable, whether this shall be an entire slave nation, is the issue before us. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.īeware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. ![]() I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Īny nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure. I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.įour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. Here is a partial list of some of his most memorable quotes.Įvery man is said to have his peculiar ambition. In addition to being a famous President during the civil war, Abraham Lincoln was a great orator known for many famous quotes. Famous Quotes From President Abraham Lincoln
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