Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 18

• I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Government, People

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “State papers, 1861-1865”

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• Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughter, Joyous, Evergreens

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln".

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• If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Hell

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Toes, Cry, Motive

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1862-1863”

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• Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Nuts, Land

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.139, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Philosophy, Past, President

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

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Emancipation Proclamation

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doe, Tails, Calling

  Abraham Lincoln, John Herbert Clifford, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1903). “Abraham Lincoln, the true story of a great life”

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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Honor, Succeed

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• No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Essence, Ideas, Liberty

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Book, New Relationship

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

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Revolution, Deceived, Rules For Radicals

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Birthday, Hands, Cake

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• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Teaching, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

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• If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Two, Four

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1959). “The collected works of Abraham Lincoln”

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• In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Sweat, Light

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.153, Library of America

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• One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

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  Powerful, War, Southern

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Trust No One, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2392, Modern Library

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• I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Believe, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Justice, Selfishness

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.334, Library of America

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• Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Men, Justice

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Time, Men

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

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