410 ordspråk av Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln föddes den
12 Februar 1809 och dog den 15 April
1865 - (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The workingmen are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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There are too many pigs for the teats
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people
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These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib
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Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization
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