Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic read more

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, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.