Quotes About Lincoln

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

I confess, when I propose a certain measure of policy, it is not enough for me that I do not intend anything evil in the result, but it is incumbent on me to show that it has not a tendency to that result.

Now, at this day in the history of the world we can no more foretell where the end of this slavery agitation will be than we can see the end of the world itself.

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

Rhyme's eyes closed. His head dipped. But only a few millimeters. As with most great men, Lincoln Rhyme's gestures of defeat were very subtle.

You can't lick a murder weapon, Lincoln." "Where's that written down, Mel? I don't remember reading that.

Lincoln lied about whether he was negotiating with the South to end the war. . . .

Lincoln turned away from her husband with a look of offended dignity, but before

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.

Sentado en la biblioteca pública de Seattle, con todo el material de consulta a mi alrededor, llegué a la conclusión de que Lincoln era lo que hoy llamaríamos un psicótico maniaco-depresivo.

He argued that the general had been sacrificed to appease the proslavery sentiment of the border states and because of Lincoln's constitutional conservatism.

Here it was again: colonization theory, gilded by the image of Jefferson, determined by God, driven by white supremacy while claiming otherwise, and callously argued by a member of Lincoln's cabinet.

GEOGRAPHY TEACHER: What state would you find Lincoln in? STUDENT: A state of extreme boredom, if he was in this class.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

Didn't he claim Rome was conspiring to take over North America and had sent the Jesuits to kill Lincoln?" asked Émile.

Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.

I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

Cautioning against socialist wealth confiscation schemes, Lincoln told a delegation of workingmen during the Civil War, "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one of his own."28