Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

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It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

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Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

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At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

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