Tag: lincoln
group name: quotes2008
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August 17, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln, Debate at Alton, Illinois , on October 15, 1858 (CWAL III:310) . . . more
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August 16, 2008 07:19 AM EDT --
The mode [of studying law] is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading . . . more
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August 15, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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August 11, 2008 06:55 AM EDT --
I fully appreciate the present peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on me.
Abraham Lincoln, December 22, 1860 Letter to Alexander Stephens
http://politicalfutures.gather.com/ . . . more
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August 19, 2008 07:29 AM EDT --
"I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country."
Abraham Lincon, August 22, 1864 - Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment . . . more
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February 17, 2008 08:46 AM EST --
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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August 18, 2008 07:33 AM EDT --
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never . . . more
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March 17, 2008 07:55 AM EDT --
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the . . . more
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February 03, 2008 08:57 AM EST --
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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February 29, 2008 08:20 AM EST --
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."
Abraham Lincoln
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January 04, 2008 07:35 AM EST --
"I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain."
Abraham Lincoln, February 16, 1861, "Remarks . . . more
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January 05, 2008 06:56 AM EST --
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln
Seems appropriate given we're now into the Presidential primary season.
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January 07, 2008 07:25 AM EST --
"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless . . . more
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January 08, 2008 07:08 AM EST --
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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January 12, 2008 08:00 AM EST --
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Apparently said about a rival lawyer, but the name seems to be lost to history.
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January 13, 2008 09:12 AM EST --
"I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called." . . . more
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January 23, 2008 07:39 AM EST --
"Every man is proud of what he does well ; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. . . . more
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January 26, 2008 07:35 AM EST --
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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January 29, 2008 08:12 AM EST --
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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January 31, 2008 07:27 AM EST --
Perhaps a more controversial quote for today, from the famed Lincoln/Douglas debates 2 years before he was elected President:
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing . . . more
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