Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Chicago, Illinois." 1 Mar. 1859. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 3, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 370.
Gregory the Great. The Pope had sent a contingent of monks to bring Christianity to the people of England. However, the monks became immediately discouraged given the primitive state of the inhabitants, the climate, and the dangerous seas to voyage over. They asked permission of the Pope to withdraw. Gregory refused but sent Augustine of Canterbury to lead the contingent.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
