Abraham Lincoln quotes - page 24

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. (Abraham Lincoln)
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. View quote
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. View quote
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If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one? View quote
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. View quote
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. View quote
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Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. View quote
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He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Congress. He regrets his want of education, and does what he can to supply the want. In his tenth year he was kicked by a horse, and apparently killed for a time. View quote
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I wish you to remember now and forever, that it is your business, and not mine; that if the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a great deal to the. View quote
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The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people. View quote
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This was the only time Abraham was ever beaten on a direct vote of the people. (Abraham Lincoln)
I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! View quote
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The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity. View quote
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Freedom has given us the control of 200,000 able bodied men, born and raised on southern soil. It will give us more yet. View quote
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As a white man is to a negro so is a negro to a crocodile; and as the negro may rightfully treat the crocodile, so may the white man rightfully treat the negro. This. View quote
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The "Journal" and "Globe" also show him voting that the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States. View quote
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Here they built a log cabin, into which they removed, and made sufficient of rails to fence ten acres of ground, fenced and broke the ground, and raised a crop of sown corn upon it the same year. These are, or are supposed to be, the rails about which so much is being said just now, though these are far from being the first or only rails ever made by Abraham. View quote
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All the battles of the Mexican war had been fought before Mr. Lincoln took his seat in Congress but the American army was still in Mexico, and the treaty of peace was not fully and formally ratified. View quote
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No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. View quote
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No other marks or brands recollected. View quote
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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. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. (Abraham Lincoln)
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them ”glittering generalities.” Another bluntly calls them "self-evident lies.” And others insidiously argue that they apply to "superior races.”. View quote
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If the loyal people united were put to the utmost of their strength by the rebellion, must they not fail when divided and partially paralyzed by a political war among themselves? But the election was a necessity. We cannot have free government without elections. View quote
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I certainly wish that all men could be free. View quote
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That if any one man, choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object. View quote
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