Abraham Lincoln ( 10 of 134 )
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it read more
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free.
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end read more
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all read more
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone 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.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
