Anxiety beclouds the future.
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. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
He who represents himself has a fool for a client
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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.
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
The health you enjoy is largely your choice
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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