Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 36

• The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Party, Night

  Attributed in "Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, vol. 1" by John Hay, (pp. 142-143), 1908.

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• By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Illustration, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.162, Fordham Univ Press

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• And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, White

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.551, Modern Library

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• When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Problem, Mets, Things To Do

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• I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Walkers, Moderates

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• When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Men, Bees

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• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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  Decision, Political, Mold

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• The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Views, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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  Happiness, Marriage, Failure

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.165, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Long, Community

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.328, Library of America

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• The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bed Of Roses, Thorns, Politician

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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  Political, Suffering, Majority

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.134, Library of America

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• I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hands, Dying, Liberty

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Law, Rights

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

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Unions, Slave

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Men, Games

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.343, Wildside Press LLC

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• Shall we stop this bleeding?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bleeding

  "Fictional character: Abraham Lincoln". "Lincoln", 2012.

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• Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

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  Country, Class, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.905, Open Road Media

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• Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Employment, Politics

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• Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership

  Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.148, Madison & Adams Press

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• I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, United States

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.496, Library of America

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• I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Country, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.535, Wildside Press LLC

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• He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Blair

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• Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, Speech

  Abraham Lincoln, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1970). “Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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