Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Youth

• We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Conceited, Thinking, America

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.280, Library of America

• 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

• There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fall, Men, Feelings

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.454, Open Road Media

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