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Letter "A" » Abraham Lincoln Quotes
«If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Confidence
| Keywords:
forfeit, forfeited, forfeits, regain, regaining, regains
«I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Equality,
Politics,
Race,
Social service
| Keywords:
Black race, bringing, equality, favor, juror, jurors, Negroes, office, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, races, The Social, The White, voters
«If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, deprive, justify, minority, moral force, numbers, point of view
«If you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguised than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.»
«Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
aid, anticipated, assistance, astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, Evening Prayer, invoked, invokes, invoking, judged, Judge Not, looked-for, sweat, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,»
«With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting pea»
«I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Family,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
grandfather, grandfathers, grandson
«Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
attractive, rainbow, rises, showers
«That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
denomination, denominations, disrespect, disrespected, intentional, in particular, scriptures
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