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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Abraham Lincoln
God, God Knows Best, Mortals
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.627, Library of America

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Abraham Lincoln
Successful, Government, Should Have
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.36, Penguin

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Law, Example
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.160, Jazzybee Verlag

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

Abraham Lincoln
Fitness, Workout, Clothes

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Abraham Lincoln
Sweet, Politics, Short And Sweet
Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.1, Stackpole Books

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

Abraham Lincoln
Horse, Middle, Streams

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Abraham Lincoln
Fall, Men, Hands
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Abraham Lincoln
Block, Struggle, Men

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Military, War
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.64, Courier Corporation

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

Abraham Lincoln
Wise, Strong, Philosophy
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

Abraham Lincoln
Eye, America, Nephilim
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.122, Library of America

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln
Truth, Lying, Believe
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Opposites, Would Be

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Abraham Lincoln
Sky, Aviation, Flight

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Abraham Lincoln
Sacrifice, Blood, Generosity
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.49, Stanford University Press

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Abraham Lincoln
Character, Adversity, Giving

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

Abraham Lincoln
Humility, Humble, Born

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

Abraham Lincoln
Loyalty, Men, Important
Attributed in W. T. Roche's address at Washington, Kansas, April 9, 1942; "Congressional Record", April 15, 1942, vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A149), 1942.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Abraham Lincoln
Faults, Melancholy, Misfortunes
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Abraham Lincoln
Law, People, Majority
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

Abraham Lincoln
Laughing, Cry, Bigs

All that harms labor is treason to America.

Abraham Lincoln
America, Presidential, Unions
Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Government, Issues
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.374, ReadHowYouWant.com

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Abraham Lincoln
Patriotic, Humble, Praying
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln
Law, Political, Reverence
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.15, Cambridge University Press