Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Christian Quotes, Religious Quotes

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 the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

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Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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