Abraham Lincoln Quotes — Page 23

Political Leader

Philosophical

“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.”

Thinking Men Office

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Political Leader

Creative

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”

Animal Nature Compassion

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Thoughtful

“I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.”

Fear Explanation

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Courageous

“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”

Horse Minutes

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Angry

“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.”

Men Justice Selfishness

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Philosophical

“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.”

May Perfect Purpose

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Determined

“Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

Motivational Charity

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Creative

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”

Book Workout

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Philosophical

“There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.”

Men Important Loyalty

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Hopeful

“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.”

War Religious Errors

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Philosophical

“A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.”

People War Law

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Wise

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.”

Long War Unfinished Work

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