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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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If I get 8 hours to cut a tree I’ll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be it's author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. they are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the Earth  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) Such will be a great lesson of peace; teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take by a war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war  (Abraham Lincoln Quotes)
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