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
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of
himself.
_TWENTY-SEVENTH_
All should have an equal chance.
_TWENTY-EIGHTH_
I hope to be false to nothing you have been taught to expect of me.
_TWENTY-NINTH_
All honor to Jefferson!
_THIRTIETH_
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I
want.
_THIRTY-FIRST_
I hope I am a Christian.
_SEPTEMBER_
_I feel that the time is coming when the sun shall shine, the rain
fall, on no man who shall go forth to unrequited toil._
_FIRST_
Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher
consideration.
_SECOND_
Come, let us reason together, like the honest fellows we are.
_THIRD_
There is no such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the
condition of a hired laborer.
_FOURTH_
There is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and
capital producing mutual benefits.
_FIFTH_
Labor is prior to and independent of capital.
_SIXTH_
This is a land where freedom of speech is guaranteed.
_SEVENTH_
Workingmen are the basis of all governments.
_EIGHTH_
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice
of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
_NINTH_
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I.
_TENTH_
How hard it is to leave one's country no better than if one had never
lived in it!
_ELEVENTH_
Keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.
_TWELFTH_
Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the
bullet.
_THIRTEENTH_
I have done all I could for the good of mankind.
_FOURTEENTH_
It is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be
on the Lord's side.
_FIFTEENTH_
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's
consent.
_SIXTEENTH_
What will the country say?
_SEVENTEENTH_
Mediocrity is sure of detection.
_EIGHTEENTH_
Washington was a happy man, because he was engaged in benefiting his
race.
_NINETEENTH_
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,
persuasion--kind, unassuming persuasion--should ever be adopted.
_TWENTIETH_
If all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation in
praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do
them full justice for their conduct during the war.
_TWENTY-FIRST_
There is something ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a
great way off.
_TWENTY-SECOND_
Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, "Can we do
better?"
_TWENTY-THIRD_
I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of
Almighty God.
_TWENTY-FOURTH_
God is with us.
_TWENTY-FIFTH_
Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils
among mankind.
_TWENTY-SIXTH_
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