Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
Abraham LincolnIf there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Abraham LincolnAs long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
Abraham LincolnThe case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
Abraham Lincoln