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Postmaster Inspirational Quotes (1081)

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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
Abraham Lincoln
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
Abraham Lincoln
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Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.
Louise Imogen Guiney
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Abraham Lincoln
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
Abraham Lincoln
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
Abraham Lincoln
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
Abraham Lincoln
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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