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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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But fight we must and conquer we shall in the end.
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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I told myself, Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means. So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what demonstrate means, and went back to my law studies.
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, [] and to preach there-from that, In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread, to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
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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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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
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Never let your correspondence fall behind.
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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
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And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
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