Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Past

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Peace, War, Past

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

Life, Past, Men

Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Abraham Lincoln

Philosophy, Past, President

Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Abraham Lincoln

Past, Men, Half

Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.357, Transaction Publishers

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Abraham Lincoln

Change, Past, Space

Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

Abraham Lincoln

Party, Past, Hands

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

Abraham Lincoln

Past, Problem

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Abraham Lincoln

Forgiveness, Past, Differences

Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.88, Fordham Univ Press

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Abraham Lincoln

Change, Heart, Past

Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

Abraham Lincoln

Religious, Grateful, Past

Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1863-1864”

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Abraham Lincoln

Forgiveness, Fighting, Past

Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Complete Works”