Quotes By Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Feeling--
drowsy
Reading--
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Listening to-- nothing
I was going to do this post yesterday, but instead I ended up writing about how the Blog 365 Challenge is going for me so far. (I hope I can keep it up!)
I know I've been doing this type of entry more--at least, recently--partly to get a post up for said challenge. But yesterday I realized I enjoy doing these posts that are just lists of quotations. I love quotations, period. I love how they make me think, how they inspire and influence, and sometimes even change lives. I guess you could say in addition to being a chochoholic and a bookaholic, I'm also a quoteaholic! *chuckles*
Today's list of quotations comes from Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president.
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.""I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.""It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.""It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.""Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.""Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.""The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.""Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.""You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.""You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.""Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.""America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.""Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.""Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.""You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
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