Abraham Lincoln Quotes – Page 3
Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Democracy And Politics
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.”
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“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence”
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“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
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“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 a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”
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“Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you
are sure to succeed.”
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“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
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“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”
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“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.”
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“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
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“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
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“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
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“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, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
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“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.”
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Religion And Life
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excersize their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.”
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“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
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“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
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“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
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“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 [yet] unsolved ones.”
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
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“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
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“Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.”
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“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”
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“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
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“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.”
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
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“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world…enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”
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“A tendancy to melancholy…let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
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“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”
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“That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.”
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“Life is hard but so very beautiful”
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“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”
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“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
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“Life is hard but so very beautiful”
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“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”
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“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
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“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me – and I think He has – I believe I am ready.”
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“Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition”
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“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
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“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
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