Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Unfinished Work Quotes

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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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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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

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

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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

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Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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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.

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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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