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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not to do a particular thing, he finds a way of letting me know it.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

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.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

[The Democrats can] nominate a Peace Democrat on a War Platform or a War Democrat on a Peace Platform and I personally can't say that I much care which they do.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Thers is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

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.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

All honor to Jefferson -- to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Repeal the Missouri compromise---repeal all compromises---repeal the Declaration of Independence---repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will still be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purposeand you allow him to make war at pleasure.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

The better part of one's life consists of friendship.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

I have now 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.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
    --Abraham Lincoln  Quote info

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