Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Sacrifice

• Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sacrifice, Progressive, Ready

• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sacrifice, Blood, Generosity

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.49, Stanford University Press

• The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Pride, Sacrifice, Civil War

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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