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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm
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.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.