73 Quotes About Lincoln

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

All I have learned, I learned from books.

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it?

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.--hans vollmanYes.--roger bevins iiiLike stepping into a summer barn late at night.--hans vollmanOr a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns.--roger bevins iiiVast. Windswept. New. Sad.--hans vollmanSpacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious.--roger bevins iiiBack slightly out.--hans vollmanRight boot chafing.--roger bevins iii

Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.