Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Wish Quotes

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

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I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

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