Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Believe Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.

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My God! My God! What will the country say?

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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

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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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You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

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I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

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