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16th U S President Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
Abraham Lincoln
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
Abraham Lincoln
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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
Abraham Lincoln
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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Abraham Lincoln
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
Abraham Lincoln
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Abraham Lincoln
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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
Abraham Lincoln
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
Abraham Lincoln
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
Abraham Lincoln
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
Abraham Lincoln
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
Abraham Lincoln
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Abraham Lincoln
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Abraham Lincoln
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Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
Abraham Lincoln
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Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Abraham Lincoln
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
Abraham Lincoln
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.
Abraham Lincoln
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Abraham Lincoln
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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham Lincoln
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