"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. I believe I have no lawful right to do so. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions." I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. "Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. "If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on." "It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me." "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." "Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." 29 Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Sayings I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. The Gettysburg Address: Structure and Style Text of the Address The Battle of Gettysburg The Civil War More on Abraham LincolnĪ collection of things that Abraham Lincoln said or wrote:
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