If we falter

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.  - Abraham Lincoln


Yesterday's Forgotten Quote
But men are men; the best sometimes forget. - William Shakespeare

One day at a time

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

Nowhere else to go

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

Seasoned with laughter

With all the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -Abraham Lincoln (Remark to a cabinet member on why he was reading a book of humor)

Monday Triple Header Lincoln, Scott & Twain

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
This is a phrase I use at funerals on a fairly regular basis. We too often assume that someone who lived a long life got a fair shake and those who died younger were cheated. The fair or cheated aspect of life has more to do with our response to life rather than the things that happen to us.
This quote reminds me of a similar quote by Mark Twain:
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain
Call me odd, but I think of wolverines and shrews with this quote. Small animals that pack a punch compared to animals much larger. Both can fight off large potentially more dangerous predators and bring down prey much large than themselves.
Finally from the back of my office door:
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. -Sir Walter Scott

The truth will set you free

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. -Abraham Lincoln

Daring to do the right

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. -Abraham Lincoln