Abraham Lincoln ( 10 of 134 )
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted read more
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.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and read more
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the read more
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but read more
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to read more
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
