Just a few of his quotes and One of his famous speeches
***The Lincoln Legend
***As time passed Lincoln became more and more the object of adulation; a full-blown Lincoln legend appeared. Yet, even if his faults and mistakes are acknowledged, he stands out as a statesman of noble vision, great humanity, and remarkable political skill. It is not surprising that the Illinois rail-splitter is regarded as a foremost symbol of American democracy. Paintings, sculptures, and architectural works memorializing Lincoln are legion; the most famous shrines are his home and tomb in Springfield, Ill., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
***Gettysburg Address Speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches. The final version of the address prepared by Lincoln, differing in detail from the spoken address, reads:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these 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, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.***
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
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.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
*** If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.***
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
*** You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.***
*** I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.***
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Robert H. Schuller
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, Rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye And you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly As winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, Of what you would like to do or be.
***Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Les Brown
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William A. Ward
1921-,
We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1922-, American Novelist
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken People who lean on logic and philosophy And rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
**William Butler Yeats **
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, While imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be To know and understand.
Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, Is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Paul Mccartney
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life Through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do And they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
**George S. Patton **
*** Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.***
Greg Evans
American Writer 1978- Mother Nature visualized brilliance in everything; But surly was drunk when she created the liberal.
Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon Without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
Anonymous
Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!
Anonymous
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
**Anonymous **
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror Instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, Then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
**Marilyn Monroe **
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, To die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
**Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962
It's better for the whole world to know you, Even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. **
Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962 Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number Of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, And an equal number who do use their minds, But in an amazingly stupid way.
Carl Jung
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin