Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 37

• I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Thinking, Kentucky

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.907, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Despotism

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Slavery, Littles

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.127, University Press of Kentucky

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• People are just as happy as they choose to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People

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• I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Tire, Paine

  "A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.

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• I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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• A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, World, He Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.207, Penguin

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• If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Way, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

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• No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Favors, Favour

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

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• As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Silly, Thinking, People

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Littles, Get Up

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Lectures, Autobiography

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.130, Library of America

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• The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Important, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.44, Penguin

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• You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.51, Stackpole Books

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• I am not an accomplished lawyer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lawyer, Accomplished

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky

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• [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Unions, Election

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers

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• You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Cancer, Cutting, Over You

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Lazy, Lawyer

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1431, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  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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• The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kings, War, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Pleasure, Ends

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.113, Wildside Press LLC

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• Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forever, Unions, Action

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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