Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 14

• If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Would Be, Needs

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.64, Fordham Univ Press

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• Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Words Of Wisdom, Action

  Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

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• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Mind

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• I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Trying, President

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Fathers Day

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• Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Teamwork, Men, Deals

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• All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, All Things, Desirable

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• It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

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• Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Self Respect

  "The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln".

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• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Feelings, Civil War

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, God, Dream

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Half, Lost

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Badass, America, President

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• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

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  Country, Believe, Men

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• I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

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• I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Minutes, Five

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Race

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• In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, World, Down And

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Wildside Press LLC

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

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• This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

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  Men, Race, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Rights, Giving

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• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Selfish, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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