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Postmaster Inspirational Quotes (1081)

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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
Abraham Lincoln
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Human-nature will not change.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
Abraham Lincoln
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
Abraham Lincoln
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
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I want in all cases to do right.
Abraham Lincoln
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The political horizon looks dark and lowering but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
Abraham Lincoln
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Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am always for the man who wishes to work.
Abraham Lincoln
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Abraham Lincoln
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Labor is the true standard of value.
Abraham Lincoln
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
Abraham Lincoln
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
Abraham Lincoln
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
Abraham Lincoln
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The severest justice may not always be the best policy
Abraham Lincoln
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
Abraham Lincoln
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
Abraham Lincoln
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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
Abraham Lincoln
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
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