A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad. — 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
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. — 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
I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right. — 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
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which… — 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
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the… — 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
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that,… — 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
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to… — 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
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
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — 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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