Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 30

• If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

  Abraham Lincoln

  Desire, Firsts, Slave

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

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• The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fields, Bread, Strange

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.370, Wildside Press LLC

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• If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lying, Might, Outcomes

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• Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughter, Medicine, Laughing

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doe, Eclipse, Hundred

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1955). “Collected works”

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• Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Offering, Civilization

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• This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Would Be, World, Slavery

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Religious, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

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• It's bad. It's damned bad.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War

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• When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Want, Administration, Reins

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• I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humble, Hands, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.236, Wildside Press LLC

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• Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Civil War, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1237, Open Road Media

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confused, War, Ducks

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Party, Duration

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Civil War, Politics

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

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• I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Years, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.661, Library of America

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• Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Defense, May, Liquor

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• Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Adversity, Doe, Frail

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• Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jealousy, Men, May

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

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• Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War

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• I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, White, Numbers

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• All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Littles, Enjoy, Asks

  David W. Bartlett, Abraham Lincoln (1860). “The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin”, p.197

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• It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Taken, Mean, Army

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.924, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Gingerbread, Earth

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• We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Slave

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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