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


Abraham Lincoln

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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