Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Tasks Quotes

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

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Every head should be cultivated.

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Violence begins where knowledge ends.

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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

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I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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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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We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

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I will learn, the opportunity will come.

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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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the better angels of our nature

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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