Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.
Abraham Lincoln
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Abraham Lincoln
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Abraham Lincoln
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln