Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln

Political Leader

Hopeful

“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”

Men Believe Country

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Abraham Lincoln

Political Leader

Love

“When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.”

Heart Religious Patriotic

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Courageous

“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”

Giving Military Civil War

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Hopeful

“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.”

Men Believe

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Melancholic

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

Laughing Laughter

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Wise

“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

Lying Memories Worst Enemy

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Philosophical

“But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.”

Running Government Religious

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Wise

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

Military Army Blue

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Funny

“Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.”

Sea Rivers Uncles

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Spiritual

“Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.”

Bondage Captivity Limbs

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Regretful

“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”

Men Love Justice

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Courageous

“As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.”

Men War Despotism

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