Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 22

• We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Light, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1392, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

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• My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Hope, Time

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• The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Basketball, Babylon, Difficulty

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

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• Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Men, Law

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Cheerful

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.69, Library of America

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• Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Trade

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• My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Men, Vices

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• The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, Adversity, Giving

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• All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

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  Liars, Hate, Men

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Political, Politics

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.64, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was raised to farm work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Autobiography, Raised, Farms

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.107, Library of America

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  Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Men, Voting

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

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• Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Government, Long

  Notes for Speech, ca. Sept. 1859

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• Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Likes, Forget

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

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

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dungeons, Have Faith, Might

  Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

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• I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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  Perseverance, Age, Mature

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.174, Library of America

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• Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Government, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln's Speech in the House of Representatives, June 20, 1848.

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• The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Care, Worst, Worst Things

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• But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Biblical, Knows

  "The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln – Volume 7: 1863-1865".

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• I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Patriotic, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Advice, Lawyer, Trade

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