Top 100 Quotes About Abraham Lincoln
#3. 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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#4. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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#6. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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#7. The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.
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#11. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
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#12. There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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#13. The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall.
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#15. If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
Maria Augusta Von Trapp
#16. Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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#18. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
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#19. Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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#20. 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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#22. Whatever you are, be a good one. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Mark Sanborn
#23. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
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#24. If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier
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#25. I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
Abraham Whipple
#26. Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail ... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
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#27. There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
John Wooden
#28. When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Christopher Morley
#29. Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
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#30. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.
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#31. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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#32. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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#34. I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.
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#35. Must is the word ... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not ... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.
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#36. My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I ... fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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#38. There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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#40. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
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#41. The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
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#42. God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.
Felix Wantang
#43. We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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#44. If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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#45. Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
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#46. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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#47. I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.
Rafe Esquith
#48. By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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#49. A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall
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#50. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#51. Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
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#53. When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
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#55. My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."
Donald Cerrone
#56. How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
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#57. The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.
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#58. As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.
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#59. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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#60. I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
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#62. I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.
Joyce Carol Oates
#63. The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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#64. Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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#66. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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#67. If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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#68. If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Bo Bennett
#69. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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#70. I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
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#71. Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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#72. Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#74. I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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#75. We must settle this question now
whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
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#76. Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?
Sean Covey
#77. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.
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#78. 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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#79. A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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#80. Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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#81. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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#82. 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 yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.
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#83. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
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#84. I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
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#85. I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.
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#86. Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#87. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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#89. If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
Sam Waterston
#90. I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.
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#91. If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.
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#92. What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
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#93. It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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#94. I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.
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#95. Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it. A. Lincoln
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#97. As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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#98. To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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#99. I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
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#100. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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