in Quotes & Aphorisms (Hope)
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
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Citations by Abraham Lincoln
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, i can say, for one, that i have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Written on friday march 9, 1832