Tag: knowledge
group name: quotetheworld
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August 22, 2008 08:04 AM EDT --
"You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union."
Abraham Lincoln, August 26, . . . more
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April 15, 2008 08:36 AM EDT --
"Crook, do you know I believe there are men who want to take my life? And I have no doubt they will do it.....I know no one could do it and escape alive. But if it is to be done, it is impossible . . . more
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April 18, 2008 07:19 AM EDT --
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance . . . more
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May 03, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.
Abraham Lincoln, July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago
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May 11, 2008 09:04 AM EDT --
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
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May 17, 2008 07:40 AM EDT --
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe . . . more
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May 18, 2008 08:18 AM EDT --
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
For some reason this reminds me of our current conflict in Iraq.
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May 22, 2008 08:53 AM EDT --
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
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May 31, 2008 08:58 AM EDT --
The sharpness of a refusal or the edge of a rebuke may be blunted by an appropriate story, so as to save wounding feeling and yet serve the purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln carefully . . . more
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June 01, 2008 08:11 AM EDT --
I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No--when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln
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June 02, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
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July 12, 2008 09:59 AM EDT --
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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April 19, 2008 09:38 AM EDT --
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1863 Letter . . . more
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April 20, 2008 08:54 AM EDT --
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, . . . more
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May 04, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care . . . more
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May 05, 2008 09:52 AM EDT --
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln
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July 17, 2008 07:44 AM EDT --
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? 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 . . . more
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May 02, 2008 07:48 AM EDT --
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone . . . more
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May 27, 2008 08:37 AM EDT --
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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June 04, 2008 08:00 AM EDT --
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
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