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  • ...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Hate Quotes , World Quotes
  • In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Change Quotes , Horse Quotes