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Postmaster Inspirational Quotes (1081)

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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
Abraham Lincoln
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The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.
Flora Thompson
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
Abraham Lincoln
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Abraham Lincoln
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My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
Abraham Lincoln
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I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Abraham Lincoln
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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
Abraham Lincoln
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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
Abraham Lincoln
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Abraham Lincoln
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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
Abraham Lincoln
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The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
Abraham Lincoln
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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
Abraham Lincoln
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You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
Flora Thompson
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
Abraham Lincoln
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A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
Abraham Lincoln
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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
Abraham Lincoln
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
Abraham Lincoln
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
Abraham Lincoln
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Others have been made fools of by the girls but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
Abraham Lincoln
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