Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Issues Quotes, Government Quotes

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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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

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Violence begins where knowledge ends.

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

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You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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