Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Mean Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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

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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

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Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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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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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

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Violence begins where knowledge ends.

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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

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

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