Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

American statesman

Lived from: 1809 - 1865

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 february 1809 Died: 15 april 1865

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  • Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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  • Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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  • To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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  • To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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  • To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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  • Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
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  • Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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  • Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
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  • We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
    First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
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  • We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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  • We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
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  • We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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  • We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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  • What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
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  • What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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  • Whatever you are, be a good one.
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  • When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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  • When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
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  • When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
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  • When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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