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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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Honor is better than honors.
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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
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Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
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You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
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Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
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As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
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