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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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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The health you enjoy is largely your choice

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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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

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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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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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I am nothing, truth is everything.

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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

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