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.
Weitere Zitate von Abraham Lincoln
Zum Autor"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
"Lincoln on Grant: 'He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"We trust Sir that God is on our side.' 'It is more important to know that we are on God's side.'."
"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."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."