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Wish Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- 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 do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best…
- 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…
- Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about…
- So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written…
- I am always for the man who wishes to work.
- I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not…
- If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,…
- No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -…
- 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…
- I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
- It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of…
- If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
- I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have…
- As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly…
- The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it…
- I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius