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Abraham Lincoln Quote - 2/17/08
by David K.
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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 more
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
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
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 more
December 02, 2007 08:44 AM EST --   "If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will . . . more
December 03, 2007 07:43 AM EST --   "You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional -- I think differently." Abraham Lincoln, From the August 26, . . . more
December 04, 2007 07:37 AM EST --   "I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free." . . . more
December 07, 2007 10:15 AM EST --   "I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was.'" . . . more
December 08, 2007 10:00 AM EST -- "A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives . . . more
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
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   more
December 16, 2007 08:21 AM EST -- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln more
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
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." --From . . . more
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
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
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
December 29, 2007 08:01 AM EST -- If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. Abraham Lincoln more
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
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 more
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