I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious.
We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together. I say this is the leading principle — the sheet anchor of American republicanism. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. IS there any better ore qual hope in the world? I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.
But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.
In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle.
The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. The will of God prevails. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.
In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here, is scarcely less than your own. So plain that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master does constantly know that he is wronged. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired.
The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable — a most sacred right — a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Elections belong to the people. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. He fought for equal rights, liberty , and democracy. Those hard and bloody times led to the abolition of slavery and made the economy flourish. Switching to merrier times, Abraham Lincoln was also the one to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow.
The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Elections belong to the people. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Like all of us, presidents have a life outside of work. Abraham Lincoln was no exception his daily routine is testament to the quiet time he allowed himself in the mornings.
For this reason, throughout his life Lincoln amassed quite a collection of pithy quotes and sayings on topics far and wide. The below Abraham Lincoln quotes on life show us that despite how far removed his job must have felt from that of his fellow countrymen and women, Lincoln was as human as the rest of us:.
The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. I hope you enjoyed this collection of famous Abraham Lincoln quotes on the internet.
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