Abraham Lincoln Quotes, God Quotes, Selfishness Quotes

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.

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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

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I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

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I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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