Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 18

• I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Ideas, Long

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.17, Library of America

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• There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  America, Labor, Fleece

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• I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Successful

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.292, Wildside Press LLC

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• My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Father, Hug

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.232, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Government, Long

  Notes for Speech, ca. Sept. 1859

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• Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.200, Fordham Univ Press

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• The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, Adversity, Giving

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• If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Government, People

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• I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fighting, People

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• Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, God, Religious

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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  Motivational, Judging, Political

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.32, University of Illinois Press

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• God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Civil War, Divine Will

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

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• With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civilization, Alcohol, Tragedy

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• You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Emancipation Proclamation

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading

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• In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Perfect, Four

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• If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Hell

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Order, People, Dies

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Death, Kindness

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

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• There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Honor, Vivid

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.46, Fordham Univ Press

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• The severest justice may not always be the best policy

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, May, Prison

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.330, Wildside Press LLC

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• I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Horse, War

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughter, Joyous, Evergreens

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln".

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