Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Fire Quotes

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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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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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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