“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Speech in the House of Representatives (20 June 1848)
1840s
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Recalled in a letter from Joshua Speed in Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 527 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA527&dq=%22plucked+a+thistle+and+planted+a+flower%22 <br class="br">Posthumous attributions
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Written speech fragment presented by to the Chicago Veterans Druggist's Association in 1906 by Judge James B. Bradwell, who claimed to have received it from Mary Todd Lincoln. Collected Works, 2:532 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;view=text;idno=lincoln2;rgn=div1;node=lincoln2%3A547 <br class="br">Posthumous attributions
“I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:134?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, Cllected Works, vol. 1. p. 119 <br class="br">1830s <br class="br">Context: I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States