Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Community

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

• The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Community

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

• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Brother, Community

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Judging, Community, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.334, University of Chicago Press

• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Long, Community

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.328, Library of America

• I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Believe, Class

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.255, ReadHowYouWant.com

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