Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 22

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Freedom, Humor

  "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858

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• Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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  Criticism, Would Be, Circumstances

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• The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Enemy, Way, Best Way

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• Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiration, Slave Labor, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

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• The health you enjoy is largely your choice

  Abraham Lincoln

  Choices, Enjoy

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• All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Creation, Mines

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Wish, Whiskey

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sympathy, Agony, Perfect

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• The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Misunderstood, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1179, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

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

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• No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

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  War, Needs, Unbroken

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

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  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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  Responsibility, Men, Eternity

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Class, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.193, University of Illinois Press

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• There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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  War, Call Of Duty, Good War

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• The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessing, Doors

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• I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Facts, Court

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• Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

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  Political, Trade

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• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Giving Up, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

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  Principles, Fixed, Standards

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.335, Transaction Publishers

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• Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Heart, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.188, Fordham Univ Press

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• Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Book, School

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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