Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 39

• I think I stand where that man stands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Persons

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• Never change horses in midstream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patience, Horse, Never Change

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• The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Eagles, Gold

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.93, Stanford University Press

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• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Philosophical, Public Opinion, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.17, Wildside Press LLC

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• In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, Men, Winning

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• I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Illinois, Government, Shots

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• Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Atheism, Fool, Messages

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• There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Fighting, Wife

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• I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Atheism, Facts, Lord

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “The Table Talk of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Past, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.88, Fordham Univ Press

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• I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Wish, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1401, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Desire, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press

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• We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Want, Deals

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• It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wall, Years, Meat

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.693, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Wise, War

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

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• Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Party, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

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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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Civil War, Trying

  Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)

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• As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Action, Cases

  "The Portable Abraham Lincoln".

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• Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Faith, Book

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• With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Feelings, Littles

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln

  Looks, Persons

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• If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Death, Kill Me, Dies

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

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• Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Government, Public Opinion

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.385, Wildside Press LLC

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• I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Two, Faces

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