If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Weitere Zitate von Abraham Lincoln
Zum Autor"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
"While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years."
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
"Lincoln on Grant: 'He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."