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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

Abraham Lincoln
Issues, Government, Adoption

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Abraham Lincoln
Passion, Temper, Ill
Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln
Laughter, Real, Exercise

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Education, Book

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Earth, Lasts
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

One is a majority if he is right.

Abraham Lincoln
Majority, Ifs

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Faith, Freedom
Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Men, Wish
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Government, People

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Purpose, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Selfish, Thinking
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln
Fear, Ambiguity, Explanation
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Humanity, Independence
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.123, Fordham Univ Press

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Favors, Tariffs
"Obama's Challenge: What Would Lincoln Do?" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2009.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Fighting, Politics

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

Abraham Lincoln
Order, People, Dies

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

Abraham Lincoln
Perfect, Purpose, May
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Ideas, Long
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.17, Library of America

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

Abraham Lincoln

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Abraham Lincoln
Thanksgiving, Peace, Years
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Abraham Lincoln
Say Anything, Littles, Produce
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1042, Jazzybee Verlag

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Abraham Lincoln
Mind, Action, Free Will
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.382, Wildside Press LLC

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Abraham Lincoln
Weed, Men, Blow