Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 37

• When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Men, Bees

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• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Decision, Political, Mold

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• The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Views, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Marriage, Failure

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.165, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Long, Community

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.328, Library of America

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• The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bed Of Roses, Thorns, Politician

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Suffering, Majority

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

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• No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Favors, Favour

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

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• As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Silly, Thinking, People

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Littles, Get Up

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Lectures, Autobiography

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.130, Library of America

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• The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Important, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.44, Penguin

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• You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.51, Stackpole Books

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• I am not an accomplished lawyer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lawyer, Accomplished

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky

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• [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Unions, Election

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers

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• You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Cancer, Cutting, Over You

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, United States

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.496, Library of America

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• I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Kentucky

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.907, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Despotism

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Unions, Slave

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Slavery, Littles

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.127, University Press of Kentucky

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• People are just as happy as they choose to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People

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• I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Tire, Paine

  "A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.

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