Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 7

• We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Might, Election

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

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• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Two, Toil

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

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• Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Progress, Rapids

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Loss, Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.336, Library of America

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• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Money, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Government, Two

  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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• Achievement has no color

  Abraham Lincoln

  Color, Racism, Achievement

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• I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Wise, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Stars, History, Flags

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• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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  Change, Freedom, Father

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

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• Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Creating, Next

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• Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Distance, Writing

  Abraham Lincoln's address on discoveries and inventions at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 18, 1935.

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• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Encouraging, Wise

  Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

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• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July

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

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• Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Saboteurs, Damage

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• If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

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  School, Rights, Rome

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

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  Peace, War, Past

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• Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Earth, Lasts

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• ...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

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  Men, Thinking, Race

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.499, Modern Library

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• The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

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  Godly, Safety, Presidential

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• I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Peace, Mean

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