When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Weitere Zitate von Abraham Lincoln
Zum Autor"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."
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation."
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
"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."
"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."
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."