Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 13

• If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Would Be, Needs

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.64, Fordham Univ Press

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• Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Distance, Writing

  Abraham Lincoln's address on discoveries and inventions at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 18, 1935.

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• Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Half, Lost

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

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• I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Two, Southern

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• Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Words Of Wisdom, Action

  Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

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• Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jealousy, Men, Helping

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

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  Depression, Men, Race

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• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Selfish, Mistake, Men

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Self Respect

  "The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln".

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• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Dangerous

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• And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

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  God, Religious, Fear

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.261, Library of America

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• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thanksgiving, Peace, Years

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

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• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Judging, Political

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.32, University of Illinois Press

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Lying, Justice

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

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  Thanksgiving, Father, Heaven

  Proclamation, 3 Oct. 1863

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• Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Saving, Fruit, Prosperity

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• God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

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  God, Civil War, Divine Will

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Keys, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

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• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Feelings, Civil War

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Father, Hug

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.232, Jazzybee Verlag

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