Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Advice Quotes, Wish Quotes

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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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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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

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

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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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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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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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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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

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