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  • My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Tasks Quotes
  • You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Believe Quotes , Silly Quotes
  • No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Law Quotes , May Quotes
  • The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Fall Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Country Quotes
  • I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Fighting Quotes