Abraham Lincoln quotes - page 22

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. (Abraham Lincoln)
Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. View quote
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. View quote
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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade. View quote
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done. View quote
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. View quote
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. View quote
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. View quote
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty. View quote
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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. 'Why do you try to make friends of them' asked an associate. 'You should try to destroy them.' 'Am I not destroying my enemies,' Lincoln gently replied, 'when I make them my friends' View quote
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. (Abraham Lincoln)
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet. View quote
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. View quote
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I can't spare this man he fights. View quote
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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. View quote
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side. View quote
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. View quote
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. View quote
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Public opinion in this country is everything. View quote
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. View quote
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. (Abraham Lincoln)
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. View quote
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. View quote
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I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the whole nation for those of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. View quote
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. View quote
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