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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.