I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. — 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
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a… — 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
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime… — 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
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the… — 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
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
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason,… — 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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