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Thinking Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
- You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is…
- I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And…
- The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
- I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive…
- Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no…
- Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects…
- While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my…
- We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat…
- 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…
- 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…
- None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
- Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it…
- 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…
- You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
- I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
- 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 do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and…
- We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray…
- 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…
- I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
- ...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;…
- A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
- ...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore…
- As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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