Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 6

• If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Presidential, Civil War, Slavery

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confidence, Respect, Honesty

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

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• Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, People, Looks

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• Writing is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Writing, Great Inventions, World

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.7, Library of America

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• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, Tree, Shadow

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

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• You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

  Abraham Lincoln

  Exercise, Age, Middle

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Politics, Study

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• Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (1943). “Selected Writings and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln”

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• I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dark, Clouds, Rome

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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Friendship, Memories

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Political, Politics

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• We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Might, Election

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

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• Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Wicked, Thank God

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

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• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Losing, Lost

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.81, Algonquin Books

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• Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

  Abraham Lincoln

  Taken, Men, Long

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Believe, Struggle

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Office, Favors

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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• Achievement has no color

  Abraham Lincoln

  Color, Racism, Achievement

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• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.139, Stackpole Books

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• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Encouraging, Wise

  Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

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• We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, World, Made

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

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• ...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.499, Modern Library

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• Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Determination, Recovery

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.197, Library of America

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