Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Men Quotes, Honor Quotes

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

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I am not an accomplished lawyer.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

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Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

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As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

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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 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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If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

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I will learn, the opportunity will come.

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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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And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

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Life is hard but so very beautiful

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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

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