Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Life Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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

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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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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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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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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

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