Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. — 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
I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other… — 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
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our… — 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
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — 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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