Frasi di Abraham Lincoln (654 frasi, pagina 21)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
[Citazione errata] La prima attribuzione ad Abraham Lincoln si trova nel Golden Book magazine del novembre 1931. La citazione è stata attribuita anche a Mark Twain e in misura minore a Confucio, John Maynard Keynes e Arthur Burns. Inoltre diversi proverbi esprimono un concetto simile, tra questi ne va ricordato uno incluso nel Libro dei Proverbi della Bibbia: «Anche lo stolto, se tace, passa per saggio | e, se tien chiuse le labbra, per intelligente.». In realtà la citazione sembrerebbe appartenere a Maurice Switzer, infatti una prima traccia di questa frase si ritrova proprio nel suo libro, Mrs. Goose, Her Book del 1907. La frase viene citata anche da Lisa nel decimo episodio della quarta stagione de I Simpson.
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Variante: Meglio tacere e dare l'impressione di essere stupidi, piuttosto che parlare e togliere ogni dubbio!
Origine: Cfr. Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/, QuoteInvestigator.com, 17 maggio 2010.

Silenzio , Divertente

“Nessuno ha una memoria tanto buona da poter essere un perfetto bugiardo.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Citato in Selezione dal Redear's Digest, dicembre 1962.

Memoria

“Io devo studiare sodo e preparare me stesso perché prima o poi verrà il mio momento.”

Abraham Lincoln

“I dogmi di un passato tranquillo sono inadeguati al presente tempestoso. La situazione è irta di difficoltà, e noi dobbiamo essere all'altezza della situazione. Poiché il nostro caso è nuovo, dobbiamo pensare in modo nuovo e agire in modo nuovo. Dobbiamo emanciparci.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Citato in John D. Barrow, I numeri dell'universo, Mondadori, 2004.

Modo , Passato

“Il Governo dovrebbe creare, emettere e far circolare tutta la valuta ed il credito necessario per soddisfare il potere di vendita del Governo ed il potere d'acquisto dei Cittadini consumatori. Il privilegio di creare ed emettere moneta non è solo la suprema prerogativa del Governo, ma è anche la sua più grande opportunità creativa. Con l'adozione di questi princìpi, ai Contribuenti saranno risparmiate enormi quantità di interessi. Il denaro cesserà di essere il padrone e diventerà il servitore dell'Umanità.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Lincoln Abraham Senate document 23, Page 91. 1865.

Sul denaro , Opportunità

“[La democrazia è il] governo del popolo, dal popolo, per il popolo.”

Abraham Lincoln

Democrazia

“Io non so chi fu mio nonno; mi importa molto di più sapere chi sarà suo nipote.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Tutti gli uomini nascono uguali, però è l'ultima volta in cui lo sono.”

Abraham Lincoln

Sugli uomini

“[All'insegnante del figlio] Cerchi di dare a mio figlio la forza per non seguire la massa, anche se tutti saltano sul carro del vincitore.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Citato in Aldo Grasso, Il vizio antico, fuga dal carro perdente, Corriere della Sera, 11 dicembre 2016, p. 1.

figlie

“Dobbiamo avere fede nel fatto che siano i diritti a conferire il potere.”

Abraham Lincoln

Sulla fede

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“Il matrimonio non è né paradiso né inferno, è semplicemente purgatorio.”

Abraham Lincoln

Inferno , Sul matrimonio

“Io credo che il più grande dono che Dio ha fatto all'umanità sia la Bibbia.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Da The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Rutgers University Press, 1953), ed. Roy P. Basler, volume VII, p. 542.

Su Dio

“Quel che importa non è vincere o perdere, ma accettare serenamente la sconfitta.”

Abraham Lincoln

“La religione di un uomo non vale molto se non ne traggono beneficio anche il suo cane e il suo gatto.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro degli aforismi, Gribaudo, Milano, 2011, p. 268 http://books.google.it/books?id=PJKwfd6ulGMC&pg=PA268. Citato anche in Giuliana Rotondi, Tutti i gatti del presidente, Focus Storia , n. 70, agosto 2012, p. 61: «La religione di un uomo non è gran cosa se non ne traggono beneficio anche il cane e il gatto».

Sulla religione

“Non affermo di aver controllato gli eventi, anzi confesso in tutta sincerità di essere stato controllato dagli eventi.”

Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Dalla lettera del 4 aprile 1864 ad Albert G. Hodges, editore del Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth (riportando la loro conversazione del 26 marzo 1864). Manuscript at The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt027.html; anche in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, volume VII, p. 281.

Sincerità

“[Incontrando Harriet Beecher Stowe] Allora, tu sei la piccola signora che ha causato questa grande guerra.”

Abraham Lincoln

Sulla guerra

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“Guarda la grandezza di questo argomento!”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Dichiaro di non avere controllato gli eventi, ma confesso chiaramente che gli eventi hanno controllato me.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Con la cattura finisce il piacere della caccia.”

Abraham Lincoln

Sul piacere

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“Chiunque farà per te, ma non per me. Io devo avere.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Determina che la cosa può e deve essere fatta, e quindi troveremo la strada.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Questa lotta è troppo grande per farti deviare da qualsiasi piccola questione.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Tatto: la capacità di descrivere gli altri nel modo in cui loro vedono se stessi.”

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Modo

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“Essere con un leader quando ha ragione, rimanere con lui quando ha ancora ragione, ma lasciarlo quando ha torto.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Ho sempre scoperto che la misericordia porta frutti più ricchi della giustizia rigorosa.”

Abraham Lincoln

Sulla giustizia

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“Quasi tutti gli uomini possono resistere alle avversità, ma se vuoi testare il carattere di un uomo, dagli potere.”

Abraham Lincoln

Sugli uomini

Abraham Lincoln: Frasi in inglese

“All portions of this confederacy should act in harmony and with careful deliberation. The Democrats cry John Brown invasion. We are guiltless of it, but our denial does not satisfy them. Nothing will satisfy them but disinfecting the atmosphere entirely of all opposition to slavery. They have not demanded of us to yield the guards of liberty in our state constitutions, but it will naturally come to that after a while. If we give up to them, we cannot refuse even their utmost request. If slavery is right, it ought to be extended; if not, it ought to be restricted, there is no middle ground. Wrong as we think it, we can afford to let it alone where it of necessity now exists; but we cannot afford to extend it into free territory and around our own homes. Let us stand against it!”

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Abraham Lincoln

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. He was asked what he was going to do with such a miserable beast, the poor creature would die. 'Do?' said he. 'I'm going to fat him up; don't you see that I have got him seal fat as high as the knees?'”

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Well, they've got the Union dissolved up to the ankle, but no farther!
1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“I have heard that in consequence of this 'sectional warfare', as Douglas calls it, Senator Mason of Va., had appeared in a suit of homespun. Now up in New Hampshire, the woolen and cotton mills are all busy, and there is no strike. They are busy making the very goods Senator Mason has quit buying! To carry out his idea, he ought to go barefoot! If that's the plan, they should begin at the foundation, and adopt the well-known 'Georgia costume' of a shirt-collar and pair of spurs!”

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Abraham Lincoln

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“He didn't pretend to be familiar with the subject of the shoe strike, probably knew as little about it as Senator Douglas himself. This strike has occurred as the Senator says, or it has not. Shall we stop making war upon the South? We never have made war upon them. If any one has, better go and hang himself and save Virginia the trouble. If you give up your convictions and call slavery right as they do, you let slavery in upon you, instead of white laborers who can strike, you'll soon have black laborers who can't strike.”

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1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“The democrats had just been whipped in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and seized upon the unfortunate Harper's Ferry affair to influence other elections then pending. They said to each other, 'Jump in, now's your chance', and were sorry there were not more killed. But they didn't succeed well. Let them go on with their howling. They will succeed when by slandering women you get them to love you, and by slandering men you get them to vote for you.”

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Abraham Lincoln

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“He went on to speak of the manner in which slavery was treated by the Constitution. The word 'slave' is no where used; the supply of slaves was to be prohibited after 1808; they stopped the spread of it in the territories; seven of the states abolished it. He argued very conclusively that it was then regarded as an evil which would eventually be got rid of, and that they desired, once rid of it, to have nothing in the constitution to remind them of it. The Republicans go back to first principles and deal with it as a wrong. Mason, of Va., said openly that the framers of our government were anti-slavery. Hammond of S.C., said 'Washington set this evil example'. Bully Brooks said: 'At the time the Constitution was formed, no one supposed slavery would last till now.'”

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Abraham Lincoln

We stick to the policy of our fathers.
1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation and go to work energetically and very kindly to get rid of the evil. Now let us test them. Frank Blair tried it; and he ran for Congress in '58, and got beaten. Did the democracy feel bad about it? I reckon not, I guess you all flung up your hats and shouted 'Hurrah for the Democracy!'”

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1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“Another illustration. When for the first time I met Mister Clay, the other day in the cars, in front of us sat an old gentleman with an enormous wen upon his neck. Everybody would say the wen was a great evil, and would cause the man's death after a while. But you couldn't cut it out, for he'd bleed to death in a minute. But would you engraft the seeds of that wen on the necks of sound and healthy men? He must endure and be patient, hoping for possible relief. The wen represents slavery on the neck of this country. This only applies to those who think slavery is wrong. Those who think it right would consider the snake a jewel, and the wen an ornament.”

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1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“If the Republicans, who think slavery is wrong, get possession of the general government, we may not root out the evil at once, but may at least prevent its extension. If I find a venomous snake lying on the open praire, I seize the first stick and kill him at once. But if that snake is in bed with my children, I must be more cautious. I shall, in striking the snake, also strike the children, or arouse the reptile to bite the children. Slavery is the venomous snake in bed with the children. But if the question is whether to kill it on the prairie or put it in bed with other children, I think we'd kill it!”

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Abraham Lincoln

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act.”

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Abraham Lincoln

Origine: 1860s, Telegram to George B. McClellan (1862)

“May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit towards those who have? And now, let me close by asking three hearty cheers for our brave soldiers and seamen, and their gallant and skillful commanders.”

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Origine: 1860s, On Democratic Government (1864)

“My enemies say I am now carrying on this war for the sole purpose of abolition. It is and will be carried on so long as I am President for the sole purpose of restoring the Union. But no human power can subdue this rebellion without using the Emancipation lever as I have done.”

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Origine: 1860s, Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills (1864)

“Labor is like any other commodity in the market — increase the demand for it and you increase the price of it. Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.”

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Origine: 1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)

“I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.”

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Abraham Lincoln

Origine: 1860s, Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)

“Slavery is wrong in its effect upon white people and free labor; it is the only thing that threatens the Union. It makes what Senator Seward has been much abused for calling an 'irrepressible conflict.'”

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Abraham Lincoln

Origine: 1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)
Contesto: When they get ready to settle it, we hope they will let us know. Public opinion settles every question here, any policy to be permanent must have public opinion at the bottom, something in accordance with the philosophy of the human mind as it is. The property basis will have its weight. The love of property and a consciousness of right or wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often make a man's course seem crooks, his conduct a riddle.

“During my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.”

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Abraham Lincoln

Origine: Letter to Daniel Ullmann (1 February 1861); quoted in "Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig" by Daniel Walker Howe, The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Winter 1995) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0016.105?view=text;rgn=main; also in We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 (2013) by William J. Cooper, p. 72 http://books.google.com/books?id=meYLTCRlHaQC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=Lincoln+%22I+have+loved+and+revered%22&source=bl&ots=A-QLTNlkSN&sig=F0MdGo6rkAVKc3tIQSs0Xp4AdSY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fmpQUv22LpCi4APhj4HoDQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Lincoln%20%22I%20have%20loved%20and%20revered%22&f=false

“If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.”

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Origine: 1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

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Origine: 1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Contesto: At the hazard of being thought one of the fools of this quotation, I meet that argument — I rush in — I take that bull by the horns. I trust I understand and truly estimate the right of self-government. My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so extend it because it is politically wise, as well as naturally just: politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us. Here, or at Washington, I would not trouble myself with the oyster laws of Virginia, or the cranberry laws of Indiana. The doctrine of self-government is right, — absolutely and eternally right, — but it has no just application as here attempted. Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such application depends upon whether a negro is not or is a man. If he is not a man, in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self-government do just what he pleases with him.
But if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.