The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator — John Shaqi
The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great EmancipatorLincoln, Abraham
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The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Quotations
Military glory--that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of
blood.
_TWENTY-SECOND_
Pleasures to be enjoyed, or pains to be endured, after we shall be
dead and gone, are but little regarded.
_TWENTY-THIRD_
Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government; that, and
that alone, is self-government.
_TWENTY-FOURTH_
The universal sense of mankind on any subject is an argument, or at
least an influence, not easily overcome.
_TWENTY-FIFTH_
Without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and
go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
_TWENTY-SIXTH_
Unless among those deficient of intellect, every one you trade with
makes something.
_TWENTY-SEVENTH_
Implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, that he may
enlighten the nation to know and to do His will.
_TWENTY-EIGHTH_
We should look beyond our noses.
_TWENTY-NINTH_
Labor for all now living, as well as all hereafter to live.
_THIRTIETH_
I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice.
_THIRTY-FIRST_
Success does not so much depend upon external help as on
self-reliance.
_NOVEMBER_
_All are of the great family of men, and if there is one shackle upon
any of them, it would be far better to lift the load._
_FIRST_
Men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly
responsible through time and in eternity.
_SECOND_
Never mind if you are a count; you shall be treated with just as much
consideration, for all that.
_THIRD_
If Almighty God gives a man a cowardly pair of legs, how can he help
their running away with him?
_FOURTH_
It is against my principles to contest a clear matter of right.
_FIFTH_
The strife of elections is but human nature applied to the facts of
the case.
_SIXTH_
How nobly distinguished that people who shall have planted and
nurtured both the political and moral freedom of their species!
_SEVENTH_
If we succeed, there will be glory enough.
_EIGHTH_
Office seekers are a curse to the country.
_NINTH_
Justice to all.
_TENTH_
It must be somebody's business.
_ELEVENTH_
Every man has a right to be equal to every other man.
_TWELFTH_
Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all passions subdued, all
matter subjugated, mind, conquering mind, shall live and move, the
monarch of the world!
_THIRTEENTH_
We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.
_FOURTEENTH_
I don't know anything about money. I never had enough of my own to
fret me.
_FIFTEENTH_
Heal the wounds of the nation.
_SIXTEENTH_
I am not at liberty to shift my ground, that is out of the question.
_SEVENTEENTH_
For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to
change.
_EIGHTEENTH_
The heart is the great highroad to man's reason.
_NINETEENTH_
Hope to all the world for all future time.
_TWENTIETH_
The young men must not wait to be brought forward by the older men.
_TWENTY-FIRST_
Hold firm as a chain of steel.
_TWENTY-SECOND_
One war at a time.
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