Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 28

• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Organization, Civil War, Events

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Past, Space

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Cases, Difficulty

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.131, Fordham Univ Press

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• I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Holiday, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Live Concerts, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Atheist, Infidelity

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• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Suicide, Spring, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

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• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Peaceful, Bullets

  United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Abraham Lincoln (1861). “Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress”, p.16

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• A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Feelings, Society, Public Opinion

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wall, Years, Meat

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.693, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Waste, Tickets

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• Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Labor, Superiors

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• Shall we stop this bleeding?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bleeding

  "Fictional character: Abraham Lincoln". "Lincoln", 2012.

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• I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, War, America

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books

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• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Agreement, Mind, Single Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1312, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Girl, Love You, Wife

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• This nation under God

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, God, Religious

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

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• None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wine, Thinking, Abuse

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Democracy, Desire

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• Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lawyer, Public Speaking, Should

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Pride, Sacrifice, Civil War

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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