The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".
Abraham LincolnThe will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Abraham LincolnThe press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
Abraham LincolnIt is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, โThen it was a good service?โ Lincoln responded, โNo.โ The aide protested, โBut, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.โ โYes,โ replied Lincoln, โbut he didnโt challenge us to do any great thing.
Abraham Lincoln