Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham Lincoln
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
Abraham Lincoln
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham Lincoln
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Abraham Lincoln
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.
Abraham Lincoln
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‘Can any of us imagine better,’ but, ‘Can we all do better?’
Abraham Lincoln
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln