Quotes by Lincoln, Abraham

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Lincoln, Abraham on preparation
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"The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts."

Lincoln, Abraham on president   

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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

Lincoln, Abraham on procrastination
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"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

Lincoln, Abraham on progress   

"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."

Lincoln, Abraham on progress   

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

Lincoln, Abraham on prohibition   

"Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts."

Lincoln, Abraham on prohibition   

"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."

Lincoln, Abraham on property   

"Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon."

Lincoln, Abraham on providence   

"A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded."

Lincoln, Abraham on public   

"What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself."

Lincoln, Abraham on publicity   

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite."

Lincoln, Abraham on quarrels
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"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on reality
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on resolution
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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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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Lincoln, Abraham on responsibility
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"Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-esteem   

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-improvement
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"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-improvement   

"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make."

Lincoln, Abraham on time   

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Lincoln, Abraham on slavery
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"Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."

Lincoln, Abraham on slavery   

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."

Lincoln, Abraham on slavery   

"But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract."

Lincoln, Abraham on soldier
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on books - reading
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"To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization."

Lincoln, Abraham on brotherhood   

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."

Lincoln, Abraham on capitalism   

"They hold that labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed; that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence they hold that labor is the superior – greatly the superior – of capital. They do not deny that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital."

Lincoln, Abraham on capitalism   

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause."

Lincoln, Abraham on causes   

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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Lincoln, Abraham on character   

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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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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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on tact and tactfulness
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"I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all."

Lincoln, Abraham on tears
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"When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say."

Lincoln, Abraham on thoughts and thinking   

"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."

Lincoln, Abraham on time   

"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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