Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Whatever miseries this war brings upon us, it is making us wiser, and, we trust, better. Wiser, for we are learning our weakness, our narrowness, our selfishness, our ignorance, in lessons of sorrow and shame. Better, because all that is noble in men and women is demanded by the time, and our people are rising to the standard the time calls for. For this is the question the hour is putting to each of us: Are you ready, if need be, to sacrifice all that you have and hope for in this world, that the generations to follow you may inherit a whole country whose natural condition shall be peace, and not a broken province which must live under the perpetual threat, if not in the constant presence, of war and all that war brings with it? If we are all ready for this sacrifice, battles may be lost, but the campaign and its grand object must be won.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

No one can undermine national unity.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

I have no animosity towards those who object to the war. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, just give a moment of thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our forefathers who gave themselves so we can live in a world where we can do this.

I speak for a nation which, more than any other, has fought and bled.

National service is America at its best.

I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.

For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.