Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Christian Quotes, Religious Quotes

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

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I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

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You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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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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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

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Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

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