Tag: lincoln
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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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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 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
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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 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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August 20, 2008 06:28 AM EDT --
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
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December 09, 2007 08:16 AM EST --
"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."
Abraham Lincoln, From the July 31, 1846 . . . 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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December 13, 2007 07:20 AM EST --
"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have . . . more
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December 15, 2007 06:57 AM EST --
If I knew what brand of whiskey he [General Grant] drinks, I would send a barrel or so to some other generals.
Abraham Lincoln, Remark at Cabinet meeting, 1864
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December 16, 2007 08:21 AM EST --
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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December 17, 2007 07:09 AM EST --
"Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, . . . more
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December 19, 2007 07:10 AM EST --
"I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service -- the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them."
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December 20, 2007 07:20 AM EST --
"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare . . . more
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December 22, 2007 07:51 AM EST --
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in . . . more
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December 23, 2007 09:14 AM EST --
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens
Abraham Lincoln - ( Speaking about Marriage)
NOTE: The Abraham Lincoln Quote of the Day will be . . . more
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December 29, 2007 08:01 AM EST --
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln
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December 31, 2007 06:53 AM EST --
"The division of a State is dreaded as a precedent. But a measure made expedient by a war, is no precedent for times of peace. It is said that the admission of West-Virginia, is secession, and . . . more
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January 01, 2008 07:54 AM EST --
"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?"
Abraham Lincoln
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January 02, 2008 07:54 AM EST --
"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has."
Abraham Lincoln, August 22, . . . more
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