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"Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."
"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."
"Lincoln on Grant: 'He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."