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Reason 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 think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this…
- The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
- Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
- 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 President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment…
- I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more…
- We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he…
- 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…
- Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to…
- Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things…
- I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would…
- My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with…
- Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When…
- Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t he bounds…
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough