Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Believe Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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

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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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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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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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My policy is to have no policy.

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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

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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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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

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You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

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