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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Abraham Lincoln
Dog, Inspiration, Giving
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Abraham Lincoln
Time, War, Party
"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Abraham Lincoln
4th Of July, Men, Long
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership, Business, Mean
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.501, ReadHowYouWant.com

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Abraham Lincoln
Business, Needs, Company

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Giving, My Best Friend

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

Abraham Lincoln
Fool, Clients

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

Abraham Lincoln
Love, Men, Justice
Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln
Flower, Garden, Mind

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Wish
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Liberty, Desert
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.25, Fordham Univ Press

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

Abraham Lincoln
Writing, Lazy, Sermons

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln
Spring, Feelings, Independence
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Giving Up, Men
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Wish, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.133, Penguin

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Men, Differences
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.477, ReadHowYouWant.com

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration, Slave Labor, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Abraham Lincoln
Widows And Orphans, Civil War, Battle
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom, Freedom, Humor
"Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

Abraham Lincoln
Cutting, Knives, Tree

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

Abraham Lincoln
Choices, Enjoy

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Creation, Mines
Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

Abraham Lincoln
Sympathy, Agony, Perfect

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Believe, Men
Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Abraham Lincoln
Humor, Wish, Whiskey
Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”