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IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

Abraham Lincoln
Fighting, Negotiating, Ifs

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Abraham Lincoln
Wise, Men, Law
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Abraham Lincoln
Mother, Book, School
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

I was raised to farm work.

Abraham Lincoln
Autobiography, Raised, Farms
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.107, Library of America

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Abraham Lincoln
Dream, Nature, Memories
Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Abraham Lincoln
Liars, Hate, Men

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Political, Politics
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.64, Wildside Press LLC

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln
Successful, Men, Voting
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Abraham Lincoln
Principles, Fixed, Standards
Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.335, Transaction Publishers

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Abraham Lincoln
War, Government, Long
Notes for Speech, ca. Sept. 1859

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Likes, Forget

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Class, Evil
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.193, University of Illinois Press

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

Abraham Lincoln
Care, Worst, Worst Things

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Abraham Lincoln
Two, Government, Evil
Abraham Lincoln's Speech in the House of Representatives, June 20, 1848.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance, Age, Mature
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.174, Library of America

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Abraham Lincoln
Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer
"Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility, Men, Eternity
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us 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
Dungeons, Have Faith, Might
Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

Abraham Lincoln
Dream, Heart, Giving
Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.188, Fordham Univ Press

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

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

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspiring, Moving, Fall
Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.309, Transaction Publishers

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Biblical, Knows
"The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln – Volume 7: 1863-1865".

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

Abraham Lincoln
Advice, Lawyer, Trade

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

Abraham Lincoln
Opportunity

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Abraham Lincoln
Sunset, Done, Losing
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press