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Hold Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that…
- I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe,…
- 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…
- When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out…
- The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always…
- The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the…
- The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on…
- I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality…
- I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
- I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold…
- Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have…
- I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
- Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
- I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who…
- You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out…
- I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black…
More Hold Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached… — Ansel Adams