Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of… — Abraham Lincoln 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
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either… — 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
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
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can… — 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
Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the… — 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
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or)… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You must think I am a high-priced man… Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — 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
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — 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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