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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Atheist, Infidelity

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

Abraham Lincoln
Lying, Might, Outcomes

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

Abraham Lincoln
Fields, Bread, Strange
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.370, Wildside Press LLC

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln
Suicide, Spring, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

It's bad. It's damned bad.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln
Successful, Peaceful, Bullets
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Abraham Lincoln (1861). “Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress”, p.16

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Abraham Lincoln
Doe, Eclipse, Hundred
Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1955). “Collected works”

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

Abraham Lincoln
Running, Religious, Men
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Offering, Civilization

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

Abraham Lincoln
Want, Administration, Reins

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Abraham Lincoln
Would Be, World, Slavery
Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

Abraham Lincoln
Laughter, Medicine, Laughing
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Abraham Lincoln
Humble, Hands, People
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.236, Wildside Press LLC

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

Abraham Lincoln
Confused, War, Ducks
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Party, Duration
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

Abraham Lincoln
Art, War, America
Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Abraham Lincoln
Patriotic, Civil War, Politics
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Years, People
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.661, Library of America

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Civil War, Enemy
Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1237, Open Road Media

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

Abraham Lincoln
Defense, May, Liquor

Everybody likes a compliment.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, President, Likes

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Abraham Lincoln
Civil War, Liberty, World
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

Abraham Lincoln
Adversity, Doe, Frail

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

Abraham Lincoln
States, Given, Circulation