Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Running

• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Acceptance, Elephants

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

• Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Religious, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

• But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Religious, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.427, Library of America

• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Uprising, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.375, Wildside Press LLC

• Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run
  ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Men, Yesterday

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.5

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