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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Abraham Lincoln
Excellence, Wells, Security

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Lying, Sleep
Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

Abraham Lincoln
Civilization, Alcohol, Tragedy

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Favors, Colonization
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Abraham Lincoln
Laughing, Digestion, Belief
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln
Strong, Power, Government
Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.41, Fordham Univ Press

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, All Things, Desirable

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, War, Errors
Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Mother, Godly

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Fighting, People

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Abraham Lincoln
Hope, Predictions, Hope For The Future
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

Abraham Lincoln
Toes, Cry, Motive
Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1862-1863”

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln
Doe, Tails, Calling
Abraham Lincoln, John Herbert Clifford, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1903). “Abraham Lincoln, the true story of a great life”

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Abraham Lincoln
Rights, Government, People
Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “State papers, 1861-1865”

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln
Happiness, Smile, Laughter
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Abraham Lincoln
Evil, Ready, Acknowledge

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Decision, Servant
Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1860-1861”

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

Abraham Lincoln
Laughter, Joyous, Evergreens
"The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln".

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Abraham Lincoln
Success, Honor, Succeed

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

Abraham Lincoln
Block, Nuts, Land
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.139, ReadHowYouWant.com

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Hell
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.191, Courier Corporation

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy, Past, President
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Abraham Lincoln
Workout, Book, New Relationship
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy