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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

Abraham Lincoln
Two, White, Differences
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.132, Penguin

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, World, Brilliant

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Success, Wisdom
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Success, Humor
Quoted in John Hay, Diary, 24 Dec. 1863.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

Abraham Lincoln
Progress, Rapids
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

Abraham Lincoln
Trust In God, Guile, Respectability
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.733, Modern Library

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln
Bulldogs, Holding On, Choke
Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.234, Stackpole Books

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
God, Patriotic, Divorce
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.373, Wildside Press LLC

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Political, Politics
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Abraham Lincoln
Battle, Liberty, Needs

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Abraham Lincoln
Enemy, Powerful Life Changing

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Believe, Men

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Secret

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Abraham Lincoln
Trust, Betrayal, Keeping Promises
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Attitude, Character

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Abraham Lincoln
Patriotic, Men, Brave
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

Abraham Lincoln
Drinking, President, Politician

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Patriotic, Heart
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Abraham Lincoln
Horse, Minutes, Five

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Men, Calling

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

Abraham Lincoln
Dog, Doe, Killing
Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln
Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Eight, Years
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Government, People, Minorities
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press