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Public 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…
- But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church…
- Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
- 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…
- Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other…
- In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in…
- 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…
- By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,…
- Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
- The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,…
- Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....
- As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world…
- The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their…
- Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
- The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Public opinion in this country is everything.
- He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes…
- Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
- With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
- The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the…
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