“I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry -… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
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