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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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