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"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 to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Brave #Brave Man #Long
"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Grey Eyes #Desirable #Eye
"The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Thinking #Book #Dogma
"Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Happy Labor Day #Labor Union #Superiors
"To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Sheep #Legs
"Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Rapids #Made #Damp
"Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Fighting #Race #Beaten
"Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#God Knows #Wells #Administration
"He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Cruelty #Animal Rights #Animal
"Confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#War #Ducks #Stunned
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#American Patriot #Anti War #War
"The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Stupid #Masters #Dream
"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Times Of Adversity #Enemy #Money
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Unknown Future #Inspirational Future #Live In The Moment
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Proud To Be An American #American Patriot #Usa Patriotism
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Countrymen #Protect #Aggressors
"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Buying #Taxpayers #Credit
"You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Thinking #Dollars #Fifteen
"What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Success #Conservatism #Conservative Political
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Life #Past #Contention
"Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Raising Children #Politician #Lawyer
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Opportunist #Preparation #Opportunity
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Being Yourself And Happy #Life Is Not Worth Living #Politician
"There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#People #War #Lines
"A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#People #Durability #War
"As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Glad #Statesmen #Occasions
"It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Passion #Talent #Ambition
"There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Judgment #Compounds #Policy
"Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Private Property #Conflict #Property

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