The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,… — Abraham Lincoln 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 Copy Share Image
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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