Men quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away."
"Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems"
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."