Quote

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

Abraham Lincoln

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
Farmer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Postmaster
Statesperson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Honest Abe
A. Lincoln
President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Uncle Abe
Country
Merit
Yields
Giving
Substance
Stake
Men
Soldier
Contribute
Life
Highest
Stakes
Cause
Hath
Causes
Yield
Often
Puts
Give
Dues

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If you have never failed you have never lived.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it. A. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age and he grew up, literally without education.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Abraham Lincoln
Image
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Abraham Lincoln