Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Crowns Quotes

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

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God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

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It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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Human-nature will not change.

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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

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