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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Abraham Lincoln
Knowing, Tasks, May
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

Abraham Lincoln
Two, Fire, Rising
Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

Abraham Lincoln
Apples, Unions, Constitution
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.169, Wildside Press LLC

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Art, Religion

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Abraham Lincoln
Humanity, Democracy, Money Power

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Abraham Lincoln
Favors, Emancipation Proclamation, Almighty

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite, Political, World
Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 Oct. 1854

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility, Today, Tomorrow

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Abraham Lincoln
Lonely, Home, Men

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Misunderstood, Enemy
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1179, Jazzybee Verlag

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Abraham Lincoln
Opportunity, Government, Creating

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, Father, Character
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.39, Stanford University Press

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln
Liberty, Matter, Individual
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.416, Library of America

The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

Abraham Lincoln
Government, Self, Voice
Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, World, Want
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.236, Cambridge University Press

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Army, Blue
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - 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. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

Abraham Lincoln
Blessed, Practice, People
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln
Honor, Battle, Deeds

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Duration, Terrible
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln
Change, Wisdom, Time
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln
Father, Work, Laughing

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Abraham Lincoln
Land, People, Support

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Abraham Lincoln
Strive, Duty, Obligation

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln
Independent Women, Dignity Of Work, Labor Day
"Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life".

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Attitude, Enemy