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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
"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
"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
"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
"He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Cruelty #Animal Rights #Animal
"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
"To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Sheep #Legs
"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
"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
"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
"Confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#War #Ducks #Stunned
"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Memories #God #May
"It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Honored #Lasts #Us Civil War
"Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Raising Children #Politician #Lawyer
"You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Paid #Resentment #Feelings
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Life #Past #Contention
"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought"
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Ought #Want #Freedom
"What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Success #Conservatism #Conservative Political
"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
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Opportunist #Preparation #Opportunity
"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Evening #Sorrow #Gladness
"Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Countrymen #Predictions #Known
"Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#This World #Punishment #World
"Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Pulpit #Justice #Legislature
"If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#People #Mean #Countrymen
"I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#Harm #Law #Believe
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
--- Abraham Lincoln
#People #Democracy Freedom #Firm
"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

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