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Mean Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
- Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which…
- Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
- 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…
- When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor…
- The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin…
- Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation…
- An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be…
- As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from…
- It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more…
- We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may…
- I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the…
- I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield,…
- I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
- The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We…
- ...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world;…
- I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
- If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any…
- I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against…
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams