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Firsts Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you…
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself…
- In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.…
- In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
- 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…
- That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within…
- If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
- What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our…
- A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first…
- I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
- Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.
- Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
- If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do…
- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first…
- I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves,…
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