Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Fighting

Peace

Politics

…I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

Hands

Humble

Struggle

…I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Government

Mean

Thinking

…Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position…Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

Men

Race

Thinking

[T]he 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 reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Block

Men

Struggle

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Book

Giving

Reading

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.

Humble

Pairs

Tides

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Exercise

Laughter

Real

A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

Country

Husband

Wife

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Funny

Humorous

Success

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Abuse

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Achievement

Acknowledge

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Affair

Age

Agony

Agreement

Alarms

Alcohol

All Things

Almighty

Ambition

Ambitious

America

Angel

Animal

Animal Rights

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Anxiety

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Apples

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Arguing

Army

Art

Asks

Atheism

Atheist

Attitude

Autism

Autobiography

Aversion

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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

…I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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