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Labor is the true standard of value.

Labor is the true standard of value.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Standards, Labor
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Thinking, Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Abraham Lincoln
Adversity, Bankers, Money Power

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

Abraham Lincoln
Dog, Time, Loss
Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Abraham Lincoln
Essence, Ideas, Liberty

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Abraham Lincoln
Revolution, Deceived, Rules For Radicals
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Business, Work
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Two, Four
Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1959). “The collected works of Abraham Lincoln”

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Sweat, Light
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.153, Library of America

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

Abraham Lincoln
Birthday, Hands, Cake

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Teaching, Men
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Death, Kindness
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Trust No One, Men
Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2392, Modern Library

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Abraham Lincoln
Powerful, War, Southern
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

Abraham Lincoln
Hate, Believe, Thinking
Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Justice, Selfishness
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.334, Library of America

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln
Equality, Men, Fairness
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Niece, Mean
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

Abraham Lincoln
Forever, Liberty, Unions
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Men, Civilization

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln
Business, Opportunity, Men
"Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Abraham Lincoln
Family, Children, Parenting
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. 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. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Fall, Government
Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Sleep, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.250, Рипол Классик