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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Half, Lost
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Abraham Lincoln
Justice, May, Prison
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.330, Wildside Press LLC

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Would Be, Needs
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.64, Fordham Univ Press

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

Abraham Lincoln
Army, Two, Southern

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Abraham Lincoln
Strong, Lying, Justice
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

Abraham Lincoln
Rights, People, Knows
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.65, Wildside Press LLC

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Abraham Lincoln
Nature, Words Of Wisdom, Action
Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Abraham Lincoln
Jealousy, Men, Helping
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Depression, Men, Race

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln
Anniversary, Funny Sex, Humor
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Religious, Fear
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.261, Library of America

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Communication, Humor
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Abraham Lincoln

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Abraham Lincoln
Nature, Animal, Compassion

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Abraham Lincoln
Thanksgiving, Father, Heaven
Proclamation, 3 Oct. 1863

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Patience
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. 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.

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Keys, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

Abraham Lincoln
Saving, Fruit, Prosperity

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Men, Thinking
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Abraham Lincoln
Liars, Atheism, Patient

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Feelings, Civil War
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, White, Black
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.412, Library of America