Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham LincolnI wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
Abraham LincolnThe good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
Abraham LincolnHuman nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
Abraham Lincoln