Abraham Lincoln Quotes, People Quotes, Promise Quotes

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

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Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

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Friendship is the start for what you call love.

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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

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I have a congenital aversion to failure.

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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

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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

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He who represents himself has a fool for a client

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My God! My God! What will the country say?

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Everybody appreciates a compliment.

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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

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