Quotes by Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Beautiful

Country

Scotland

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom

Blessing

Clouds

Justice

He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

Angel

Cities

Land

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

Blessing

Convinced

Suffering

I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband’s life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner…of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

Country

Husband

Struggle

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

Good Man

House

Men

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Father

Never Quit

Quitting

In grief, words are a poor consolation – silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Grief

Silence

Tears

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

Atheism

No Hope

Usual

Mr. Lincoln’s maxim and philosophy were: ‘What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.’ He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

Christian

Prayer

Religious

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Atheism

Beautiful

Blessing

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Cities

Clouds

Convinced

Country

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Fall

Father

Genius

Good Man

Grief

House

Husband

Justice

Knows

Lakes

Land

Men

Morning

Never Quit

No Hope

Past

Path

People

Placement

Prayer

Procrastination

Quitting

Rain

Religious

Scotland

Silence

Soul

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States

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Tears

Usual

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Quotes by Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

In grief, words are a poor consolation – silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

Mr. Lincoln’s maxim and philosophy were: ‘What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.’ He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

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