Top 42 Abraham Lincoln Cannot Quotes

#1. Being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The

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#2. We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

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#3. 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.

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#4. As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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#5. I never behold them [the heavens filled with stars] that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.- Abraham Lincoln

Louise Bachelder

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#6. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

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#7. The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

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#8. Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#9. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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#10. We cannot escape history.

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#11. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

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#12. I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

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#13. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

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#14. I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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#15. We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

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#16. You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down
Abraham Lincoln said it.

John Kasich

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#17. Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.

Shelby Foote

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#18. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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#19. When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

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#20. Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.

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#21. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

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#22. Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

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#23. We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

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#24. My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

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#25. Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

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#26. You cannot fail unless you quit.

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#27. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.

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#28. I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

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#29. You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

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#30. Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

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#31. A house divided cannot stand.

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#32. If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

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#33. I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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#34. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

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#35. As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

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#36. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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#37. Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer

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#38. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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#39. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

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#40. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.

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#41. I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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#42. We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

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