Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 20

• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Horse, Men

  Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

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• There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

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  Children, War, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.623, Library of America

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• We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Fate, Hands

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• Anxiety beclouds the future.

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  Anxiety, Anticipation

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.449, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

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  Enemy, Way, Best Way

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• Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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  Dog, Inspiration, Giving

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

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  Business, Needs, Company

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• The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, War, Party

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Call Of Duty, Good War

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• My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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  Book, Giving, My Best Friend

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• But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Men, Long

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Business, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.501, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He who represents himself has a fool for a client

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  Fool, Clients

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• But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Religious, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.427, Library of America

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• As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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  Book, Reading, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

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• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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  Flower, Garden, Mind

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• Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

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  Country, Liberty, Desert

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.25, Fordham Univ Press

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• The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Trouble

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• I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

  Abraham Lincoln

  Writing, Lazy, Sermons

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• I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Feelings, Independence

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Care for him who shall have borne the battle

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  Widows And Orphans, Civil War, Battle

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

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  God, Men, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.477, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Freedom, Humor

  "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858

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• Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

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  Inspiration, Slave Labor, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

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