Best Abraham Lincoln Sayings
- I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not… Desire
- I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… Best
- Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard… Actual
- I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… All
- I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed… Arrested
- Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about… Administration
- I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… Alone
- So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… Doe
- I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in… Deprives
- If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. Any
- Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. Free
- I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… Acts
- We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of… Fostering
- Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. Continue
- The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… Account
- No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. Country
- Labor is the true standard of value. Hard Work
- The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. Agreed
- I am always for the man who wishes to work. Hard Work
- If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… Alive
- Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. All
- Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged. Encouraged
- Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… Ago
- Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… All
- Work, work, work, is the main thing. Funny
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