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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
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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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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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We hope all danger may be overcome but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
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confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.
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