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Abraham Lincoln
American statesman
Lived from: 1809 - 1865
Category: Politics Country: United States
Born: 12 february 1809 Died: 15 april 1865
Quotes 161 till 180 of 218.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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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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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864― Abraham Lincoln -
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Gettysburg Address, 19-11-1863― Abraham Lincoln -
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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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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