Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Wise Quotes, Employment Quotes

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Wise Quotes , Employment Quotes

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Party Quotes

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , People Quotes

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Kings Quotes , War Quotes

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Country Quotes , Perseverance Quotes

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Country Quotes , Class Quotes

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Country Quotes , Freedom Quotes

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Favors Quotes

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Successful Quotes , Men Quotes

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Government Quotes

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Greatness Quotes

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Wife Quotes , Understanding Quotes

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Success Quotes

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Strong Quotes , Power Quotes

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Despair Quotes , Temperance Quotes

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes