If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it... - Abraham Lincoln
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
More quotes by Abraham Lincoln
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."