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Object Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of…
- We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it…
- You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
- 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…
- And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced…
- 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…
- Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
- My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save…
- To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
- ...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for…
- The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all,…
- This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -…
More Object Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting… — Arnold Bennett
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant