More quotes by 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."
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"