Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Unfinished Work Quotes

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

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It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

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If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

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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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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

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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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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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