Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Pleasure

• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Study, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.99, Library of America

• If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loss, No Friends, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.92, Library of America

• It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, Parenting

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

• With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Pleasure, Ends

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.113, Wildside Press LLC

• Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Spring, Hunting

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

• I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Volunteer, Captains, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

• It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lines, Able, Fit

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