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Top 25 Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Those who deny FREEDOM to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Four score and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Force is all- conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is RIGHT and part with him when he goes wrong.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.' We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
I am rather inclined to SILENCE, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
The man does not live who is more devoted to PEACE than I am, none who would do more to preserve it.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading.
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.