Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Sayings - Page 7
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“I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.”
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“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”
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“A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
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“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”
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“Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.”
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“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.”
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“Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.”
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“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
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“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”
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“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”
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“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite”
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“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.”
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“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.”
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“No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.”
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“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.”
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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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“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...”
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“I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.”
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“I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."”
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“We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.”
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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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“Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.”
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“I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.”
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“Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.”
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“The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...”
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“Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.”
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“If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”
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“In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.”
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“When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
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