Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Minorities

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press

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• That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eight, Years

  Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Communication, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Men

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• We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Succeed, Imagine, Concerts

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.537, Wildside Press LLC

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Ifs, I Can

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.104, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Reading

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Trying, President

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Lasts, Break

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• I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Minutes, Five

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• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, People, Knows

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.65, Wildside Press LLC

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• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

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• I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular
  government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Integrity, Government, Long

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.212, Fordham Univ Press

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• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sea, Government, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, God, Religious

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Enemy, Powerful Life Changing

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• Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Past, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Angel, Not Caring, Differences

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

  Abraham Lincoln

  Encouragement, Lying, Fool

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