Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice."
Abraham Lincoln
"This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions."
Abraham Lincoln
"You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it."
Abraham Lincoln
"Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."
Abraham Lincoln
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln
"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory."
Abraham Lincoln
"I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds."
Abraham Lincoln
"Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good lift."
Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free."
Abraham Lincoln
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country."
Abraham Lincoln
"While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years."
Abraham Lincoln
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
Abraham Lincoln
"Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail."
Abraham Lincoln
"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."
Abraham Lincoln
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