Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Hypocrite Quotes, Political Quotes

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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I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

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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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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

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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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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

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

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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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Human-nature will not change.

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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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Towering genius distains a beaten path.

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