Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
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."
"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."
"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."
"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."