Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 44

• It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Blood, History

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• When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Cost, Slavery, Hours

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

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• If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Abuse, Factions, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.234, Wildside Press LLC

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• Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

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  Happiness, Onward And Upward, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

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  Forgiveness, Fighting, Past

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Complete Works”

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• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

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  Running, Uprising, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.375, Wildside Press LLC

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• I want in all cases to do right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Women, Want, Cases

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.269, Modern Library

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• [Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

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  War, Uniting, Violence

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• As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

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  Money, Political, Wish

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wish, Politics

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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  Country, Views, Relief

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

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  Liberty, Slavery, Prosperity

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.391, University of Chicago Press

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• The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Learning, Events, Passing

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.543, Library of America

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• Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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  Ambition, Two, Race

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• I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

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  Ambition, Crowns, Might

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• My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

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  Education, Father, Years

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.617, Modern Library

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• The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

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  Support You, Government, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

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• Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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  Peace, Government, Maintenance

  Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1862). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1862”, p.289

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• Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Arbitration, Disagreeable

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.394, Wildside Press LLC

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• The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Punishment, Trying, Merit

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Volunteer, Captains, Pleasure

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

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• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

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  Children, School, Boys

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

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• I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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  People, Legislature, Beaten

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• I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

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  Struggle, Men, Judging

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.203, Wildside Press LLC

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• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Government, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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