“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

A nice Abraham Lincoln quote on governance, “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ”

“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.”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. ”

“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

This is a very clever quote from Abraham Lincoln, “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ”
“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.”