Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Mother Quotes, Book Quotes

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

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The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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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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One is a majority if he is right.

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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

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