And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence” — Abraham Lincoln Courage Copy Share Image
You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness… — Abraham Lincoln Comfort Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by… — Abraham Lincoln Nature Copy Share Image
I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes. — Abraham Lincoln America Copy Share Image
As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth… — Abraham Lincoln Adversaries Copy Share Image
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept… — Abraham Lincoln Acceptance Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior… — Abraham Lincoln Capitalism Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Alcohol Copy Share Image
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real… — Abraham Lincoln Good man 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 Day Copy Share Image
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement… — Abraham Lincoln Arrangements Copy Share Image
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool… — Abraham Lincoln Fool Copy Share Image
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to… — Abraham Lincoln Democracy Copy Share Image
It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they… — Abraham Lincoln Business Copy Share Image
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into? — 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. — Abraham Lincoln Civil war Copy Share Image
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and… — Abraham Lincoln Diversity Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. — Abraham Lincoln Book Copy Share Image
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government. — Abraham Lincoln Government Copy Share Image
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself — Abraham Lincoln Action Copy Share Image
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in… — Abraham Lincoln Constitutional right Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and… — Abraham Lincoln Accidents Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters… — Abraham Lincoln American slavery Copy Share Image
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,… — Abraham Lincoln Bible Copy Share Image
“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of… — Abraham Lincoln Constitution Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Ambition Copy Share Image
I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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