Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Law Quotes

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

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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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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

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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 distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

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Bad promises are better broken than kept.

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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

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And 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.

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Life is hard but so very beautiful

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

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