"If we could first know where we..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.”
“A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.”
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object”
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“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it”