Amazing Quotes

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. -Edgar Alan Poe

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. -Henry David Thoreau

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. -Theodore Roosevelt

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I will close by saying, God bless the women of America! -Abraham Lincoln (March 18, 1864 - Remarks at Closing of Sanitary Fair, Washington D.C.)

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. -Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address)

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. -Abraham Lincoln (November 21, 1864 - Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby)

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or any denomination of Christians in particular. -Abraham Lincoln (July 31, 1846 - Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity)

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. -Abraham Lincoln (July 31, 1846 - Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity)

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself. -Abraham Lincoln (September 4, 1864 - Letter to Eliza Gurney)