Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Country Quotes, Horse Quotes

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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