Abraham Lincoln quotes - page 23

The President tonight has a dream He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said 'He is a very common-looking man.' The President replied 'The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.' (Abraham Lincoln)
Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense. View quote
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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. View quote
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. View quote
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. View quote
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If elected I shall be thankful if not, it will be all the same. View quote
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one. View quote
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. View quote
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. View quote
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Human nature will not change. 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, as bad and as good. View quote
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. (Abraham Lincoln)
God must love the common man, he made so many of them. View quote
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. View quote
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling. View quote
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. View quote
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. View quote
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Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. View quote
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Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint. View quote
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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. View quote
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. View quote
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. (Abraham Lincoln)
As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past. View quote
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. View quote
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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 with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. View quote
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. View quote
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