"Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, runahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
More by Abraham Lincoln
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”
“I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.”
More on Change
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“If you want to have more, you have to become more.For things to change, you have to change.For things to get better, you have to become better.If you improve, everything will improve for you.If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.”
“I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me”