Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Mind Quotes, Scratches Quotes

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

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Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

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