Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Values

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

• Labor is the true standard of value.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Standards, Labor

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

• In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Art, Writing

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

• Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  States, Given, Circulation

• The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Issues, People

• I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Men, Judging

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.203, Wildside Press LLC

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