Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 23

• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• Everybody appreciates a compliment.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Appreciate, Compliment

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• We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Wish, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.133, Penguin

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• If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loss, No Friends, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.92, Library of America

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• With malice towards none; with charity for all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anger, Charity, Malice

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Blessed, Church

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.351, Wildside Press LLC

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• As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eye, Civil War

  Attributed reply to the South Carolina Commissioners.

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• Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Men, Law

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Light, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1392, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Trouble

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• That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, May, Literacy

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• IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Negotiating, Ifs

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• All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liars, Hate, Men

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• I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Liberty, Matter, Individual

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.416, Library of America

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

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  Depression, Men, Cheerful

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.69, Library of America

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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  Work, World, Want

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.236, Cambridge University Press

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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

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  People, Political, Politics

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.64, Wildside Press LLC

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• I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Rights

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Men, Vices

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• It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Politics, Easier

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  Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Men, Voting

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was raised to farm work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Autobiography, Raised, Farms

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.107, Library of America

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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

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• Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Thinking, Remember

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.71, Wildside Press LLC

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