Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Race Quotes, Effort Quotes

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

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With malice towards none; with charity for all.

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Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

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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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