Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Work Quotes, Land Quotes

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

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Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

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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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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

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Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

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