Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Horse Quotes, War Quotes

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

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Friendship is the start for what you call love.

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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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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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Anxiety beclouds the future.

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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

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Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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