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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Country United States
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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He is the 16 the president for usa

Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln Uncategorized
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln Uncategorized
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln Uncategorized
Doesn't it strike you as queer that I, who couldn't cut the head off of a chicken, and who was sick at the sight of blood, should be cast into the middle of a great war, with blood flowing all about me? Uncategorized
Gentlemen, you had better come up and shake my hand while you can - honors elevate some men. Uncategorized
Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship. Uncategorized
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Uncategorized
Constituted as man is, he has positive need of occasional recreation, and whatever can give him this, associated with virtue and advantage and free from vice and disadvantage, is a positive good. Uncategorized
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. Uncategorized
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. Uncategorized
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. Uncategorized
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say that I have a great respect for the simicolon; it's a very useful little chap. Uncategorized
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Uncategorized
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Uncategorized
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. Uncategorized
It is my pleasure that my children are free, happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent. Uncategorized
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Uncategorized
With all the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Uncategorized
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. Uncategorized
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government. Uncategorized