Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 39

• We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Want, Deals

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• We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Wise, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

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• Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Party, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

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• I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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• A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, World, He Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.207, Penguin

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• If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Way, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

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• In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (1922). “Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the
  other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Opposites

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

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• Your rights end where my nose begins.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Noses, Ends

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• To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, Men, Touch Me

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• Everybody likes compliment.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Likes, Compliment

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• Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Fit, Born

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

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Civil War, Trying

  Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)

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• As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Action, Cases

  "The Portable Abraham Lincoln".

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• Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Faith, Book

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• With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Feelings, Littles

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

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• Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln

  Looks, Persons

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• If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Death, Kill Me, Dies

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

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• Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Government, Public Opinion

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.385, Wildside Press LLC

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• You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Mind, Failing

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

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• Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Class, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.905, Open Road Media

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• I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.134, Library of America

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• I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Wish, Chicago

  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.190

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• I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hands, Dying, Liberty

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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