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“It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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 Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“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
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“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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 Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“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
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“For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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 Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“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
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“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”
Abraham Lincoln
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