Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 2

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
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While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
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Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
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We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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We trust Sir that God is on our side. "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at st have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
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Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
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As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
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He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.
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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
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... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
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What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
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Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.
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If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
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I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
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I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
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The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." &“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”– –
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
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I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...This is a world of compensations; and he would -be- no slave must consent to -have- no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression. Your obedient Servant,[Abraham Lincoln]April 6, 1859, in a letter to MA State Rep Henry L. PierceSpringfield, Ill.
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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God cannot be *for* and *against* the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaption to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true - that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By His mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either *saved* or *destroyed* the Union without human contest. Yet the contest began, And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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