"Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation."

Lincoln, Abraham on law and lawyers   

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."

Lincoln, Abraham on choice
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"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Lincoln, Abraham on conflict   

"What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?"

Lincoln, Abraham on conservatives
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

Lincoln, Abraham on crisis
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"I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruinedthat he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nationthey will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us. "

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"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselvesin their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The firstthat in relation to wrongsembraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government. "

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"Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"

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"There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. "

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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. "

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"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. -"

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."

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"Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts."

Lincoln, Abraham on respectability
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in."

Lincoln, Abraham on charity
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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"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 the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Lincoln, Abraham on vice
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on voting
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"Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on voting   

"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

Lincoln, Abraham on wealth   

"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 should be on the LORDS side. "

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