亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln，1809－1865），美国政治家、律师，1861年至1865年遇刺，任美国第16任总统。林肯领导美国经历了美国内战，这是美国最大的道德、宪法和政治危机。他成功地维护了联邦，废除了奴隶制，支持了联邦政府，并使美国经济现代化。
英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.到头来，你活了多少岁不算什么。重要的是你是如何度过这些岁月的。
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
我的经验是，没有缺点的人也很少有优点。
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
婚姻既不是天堂也不是地狱，它只是一个炼狱。
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
我走得很慢，但是我从不走回头路。
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
你可以一时蒙骗所有的人，也可以永远蒙骗一些人，但你不可能永远蒙骗所有的人。
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
没有人有足够的记忆力成为一个成功的说谎者。
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
我一直发现仁慈比严格法律制度结出更丰硕的果实。
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
我喜欢看到一个人对他居住的地方感到骄傲。我喜欢看到一个人所在的地方会以他感到骄傲。
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
我看到在不久的将来，一场危机即将来临，它让我紧张不安，让我为我的国家的安全而担忧……企业已经占据了统治地位，腐败的时代将随之而来，国家的金钱力量将通过消除人民的偏见来延长它的统治期，直到所有的财富都集中在少数人手中，共和国被摧毁。
