Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 40

• I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Success, Hurt

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.358, Library of America

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Being Thankful, Election, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.26, University Press of Kentucky

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• If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Father, Mean, Race

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.271, Library of America

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• You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Abstract, Knows

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.80, Penguin

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• The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Class, Slavery, Traders

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Abolition Of Slavery, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.109, Penguin

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• When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Judging, Community, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.334, University of Chicago Press

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• There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Awareness, True Ones, Seeing

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• You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Mind, Failing

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

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• I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Wish, Chicago

  David W. Bartlett, Abraham Lincoln (1860). “The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin”, p.190

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• Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Slavery, Rebellion

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.12, Penguin

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• If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Where You Are, Can Not

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.374, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Passion, Tired

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.162, Penguin

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• Be excellent and party on dudes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Party

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• God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, God, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Unions, Pilots

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.216, Wildside Press LLC

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• Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.448, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.291, Fordham Univ Press

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• I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, War, Civil War

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• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Hands, Issues

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Army, Half

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• I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Civil War, Said

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• I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Holes, Knows

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

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• The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Divine Revelation, Judgment, Lord

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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