Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Blessing Quotes

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

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Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

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