Tag: abraham lincoln
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November 28, 2007 08:16 AM EST --
[One complaint about Abraham Lincoln was that he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. The following is an excerpt from his message to Congress in which he explains his rationale. . . .
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March 23, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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October 18, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln
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October 22, 2007 08:29 AM EDT --
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
This quote is generally . . .
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October 23, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
Abraham Lincoln
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October 24, 2007 09:11 AM EDT --
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
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 . . .
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October 21, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
"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 . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:28 AM EDT --
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
Abraham Lincoln
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October 28, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
"I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself."
Abraham Lincoln, From . . .
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November 01, 2007 07:56 AM EDT --
"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."
Abraham Lincoln, From the February 22, 1861 . . .
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November 02, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
Abraham Lincoln, From the November 19, . . .
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November 03, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
"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."
Abraham Lincoln, From the June 16, 1858 . . .
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November 04, 2007 08:03 AM EST --
"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, . . .
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November 05, 2007 07:35 AM EST --
"Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and . . .
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November 06, 2007 07:35 AM EST --
"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE . . .
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November 07, 2007 08:08 AM EST --
"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering . . .
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November 08, 2007 08:08 AM EST --
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think . . .
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November 18, 2007 07:33 AM EST --
"Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
Abraham Lincoln, From the January 27, 1838 Lyceum Address
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