Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Loss

• If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loss, No Friends, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.92, Library of America

• The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Loss, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.336, Library of America

• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

• Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loss, Government, Suffering

• Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.43, Penguin

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