73 Quotes About Abraham-lincoln

[December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

...if we never try, we shall never succeed.

[October} 13th [1862] (To McClellan) ...if we never try, we shall never succeed.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

a house divided against itself cannot stand

The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

I never understand these "the south will rise again" people. Again? It never rose before. It tried to and Lincoln stomped its ass.