The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator

by Abraham Lincoln

I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.

SEVENTEENTH

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

EIGHTEENTH

Give us a little more light, and a little less noise.

NINETEENTH

The wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefiting his condition.

TWENTIETH

I shall try to correct errors, when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views, so fast as they shall appear to be true views.