Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from… — 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
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must… — Abraham Lincoln 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 Copy Share Image
Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of… — Abraham Lincoln 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 Copy Share Image
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. — 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
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right,… — 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
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
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not… — 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
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their… — 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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