Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 16

• The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liars, Atheism, Patient

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• I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fear, Ambiguity, Explanation

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thanksgiving, Peace, Years

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forever, Liberty, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

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• Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Men, Blow

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• Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Comfort, Source

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Memories, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Criminal Mind

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• Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.245, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doe, Want

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.145, Stackpole Books

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• Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Enemy, Powerful Life Changing

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• You are young, and I am older;
  You are hopeful, I am not-
  Enjoy life, ere it grow colder-
  Pluck the roses ere they rot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rose, Hopeful, Enjoy Life

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.684, Library of America

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• The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Community

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

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• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, People, Knows

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.65, Wildside Press LLC

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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 adaptation to effect His purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, War, Party

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Dangerous

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• Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Men, Brave

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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• I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hope, Laughter, Laughing

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• All I have learned, I learned from books.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Army, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик

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• My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Struggle, Slavery

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Office, Way To Live

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Men, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.208, Library of America

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