Quotes 121 till 140 of 416.
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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln (1999 edition), Gramercy -
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123 -
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.
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I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
Letter to Reverdy Johnson (26 July 1862). -
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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