Ежедневник с Линкольном: аксиомы и афоризмы великого освободителя. Авраам Линкольн
us judge not, that we be not judged.
FIFTH
Put the foot down firmly.
SIXTH
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion.
SEVENTH
I bring a heart true to the work.
EIGHTH
The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well.
NINTH
Most certainly I intend no injustice to any one, and if I have done any I deeply regret it.
TENTH
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
ELEVENTH
Action in the crisis of a nation must accord with its necessities, and therefore can seldom be confined to precedent.
TWELFTH
You can't put a long sword in a short scabbard.
THIRTEENTH
"I have made it a rule of my life," said the old parson, "not to cross Fox River until I get to it."
FOURTEENTH
It is sometimes well to be humble.
FIFTEENTH
Don't let joy carry you into excesses.
SIXTEENTH
Liberty is your birthright.
SEVENTEENTH
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or government will cease.
EIGHTEENTH
Learn the laws and obey them.
NINETEENTH
It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men.
TWENTIETH
It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.
TWENTY-FIRST
When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, better let him run.
TWENTY-SECOND
Whatever God designs, He will do for me yet.
TWENTY-THIRD
Quarrel not at all.
TWENTY-FOURTH
Let no opportunity of making a mark escape.
TWENTY-FIFTH
I want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases with women.
TWENTY-SIXTH
I should rejoice to be spared the labor of a contest, but being in I shall go it thoroughly.
TWENTY-SEVENTH
I intend discourtesy to no one.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
The doctrine of self-government is right—absolutely and eternally right.
TWENTY-NINTH
This government is expressly charged with the duty of providing for the general welfare.
THIRTIETH
We are not bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to reject all progress, all improvement.
THIRTY-FIRST
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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APRIL
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which we deem to be just.
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