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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
American President
Born: Feb 12, 1809
Died: Apr 15, 1865
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Related authors: Barack Obama Donald Trump Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S Truman John F. Kennedy Ronald Reagan Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. Abraham Lincoln
Man Conflict Before Case Both Dollar Republicans
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. Abraham Lincoln
Man Other Furnished Worse Pardon Could Never He Rob Most Go Dollars Motive Hand Sell Than Africa Children Which Depraved Them Cents Then Much Who Her Receive Bondage
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. Abraham Lincoln
Future Great Men Separation Great Britain Our Equal Practical Effecting Placed Declaration Created Use Assertion Britain
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. Abraham Lincoln
Rights People Slow Invaded Never Maintain Know Them Assert
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln
Best People World Looking Makes Lord Common Them Reason Many
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln
God Day Man Made Would Immortality Ability Only Surely Exist Infinite Being Created Grasp
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. Abraham Lincoln
Sad Experience World Young Enough Say Ours Bitterest Had Takes Know Sorrow Because Them Agony
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. Abraham Lincoln
Great Respect Great Respect Fellow Handy Little Mighty
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. Abraham Lincoln
Truth Religion Church Christian Disrespect Member General Never True Spoken Particular Am Denied Denomination Any Intentional Scriptures Christian Church Christians
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Abraham Lincoln
Man Preach Fighting See He Like Him Were Hear Bees Act
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. Abraham Lincoln
World Others Some Proportion Without Labor Happened Fruits Ages Large Enjoyed
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. Abraham Lincoln
God Great Will Party Claims Must Both Wrong Contests Accordance May Act Each
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. Abraham Lincoln
Government Home Man Poor Man Every Wild Favor Am Up May Poor Far Cutting Lands
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. Abraham Lincoln
Justice Mother Every Pulpit Spelling Books Colleges Laws Written Schools Halls Courts Reverence Preached American Legislative Taught Proclaimed Breathed Enforced Lap Her Every American Babe
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. Abraham Lincoln
Made Long Saved Cargo Unless Possibility Abandoned Carrying Shall Throwing Never Fails Overboard Likewise Without Understand Passengers Exist Cease Cease To Exist Ship Should Union Preservation
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln
Judge Better First Could Tending Know How Where Then
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' Abraham Lincoln
Truth Time Truth Is Remember Old Poet Daughter Name Another Said Who Now Whose
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln
Man Business Say Give Well Him Anything Chance
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Abraham Lincoln
Man Young Every Way Rise Never He Wishes Him Himself Hinder Improve Suspecting Anybody Young Man
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln
Best You Run He Him Got Trying Legs Elephant Away
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln
Nature Heart Memory Will Living Every Stretching Broad Our Battlefield Angels Touched Mystic Over Surely Patriot Again Land Swell Union Chorus Grave Cords
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln
God Freedom Long Others Those Must Would Would-Be Retain He Deny Just Cannot Themselves Who Deserve Consent Slave
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. Abraham Lincoln
Man White Despotism More He Also Himself Another Self-Government Another Man Governs Than
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. Abraham Lincoln
People Own Deliberate Safely Reverse Decisions Themselves Servants
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Abraham Lincoln
Me Soul World Cause Defiance Country Those Dimensions Beside All The World Lone Architect Almighty Feel Contemplate Within Unworthy Oppressors Up Expand Victorious Standing Standing Up Boldly Wholly Deserted Elevate Ever Her
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it. Abraham Lincoln
War Government Will Unless Say Favor Advance Force Shed Forced Course Am Affairs Blood Bloodshed May Against Aspect View Use Used Present Necessity Need
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