Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Religious Quotes, Selfish Quotes

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

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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

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No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

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

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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

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We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

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There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

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It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

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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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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

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