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“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“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.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“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
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Never regret what you don't write.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Never regret what you don't write.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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 Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“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
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“Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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 Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“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
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“It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“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 Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“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
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