Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 25

• There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loyalty, Men, Important

  Attributed in W. T. Roche's address at Washington, Kansas, April 9, 1942; "Congressional Record", April 15, 1942, vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A149), 1942.

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• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Opposites, Would Be

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• I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humility, Humble, Born

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• So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Government, Issues

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.374, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, People, Majority

  First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

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• All that harms labor is treason to America.

  Abraham Lincoln

  America, Presidential, Unions

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

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• It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Humble, Praying

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

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• He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Wisdom, Hero

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

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• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Marriage, Profound, Matter

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.316, Wildside Press LLC

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• Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Political, Reverence

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Too big to cry too young to laugh.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughing, Cry, Bigs

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• While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Fire, Rising

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Writing, Age

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Good Life, Prayer

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• Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, People, Justice

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.242, Algonquin Books

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• The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Liberty, Events

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.297, Library of America

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• It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, Parenting

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

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• That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Patriotic, Government

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lying, Light, Soul

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.311, University of Chicago Press

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• I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, May, Next

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”

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• In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Party, Civil War

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

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• In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Decision, Age

  Abraham Lincoln, John Hay (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Quality, Lines

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.291, Jazzybee Verlag

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