With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
---Abraham Lincoln
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule. ----Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.--Abraham Lincoln
Q#2079-Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Q#2079-Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Q#2078-Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Q#2074-Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Q#2075-Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Q#2076-Abraham Lincoln
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Q#2071-Abraham Lincoln
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Q#2070-Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Q#2066-Abraham Lincoln
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Q#2068-Abraham Lincoln
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.