It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my… — 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
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years… — 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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