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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

Abraham Lincoln
Jealousy, Men, May
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Civil War, Equal
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.505, Wildside Press LLC

I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

Abraham Lincoln
Dream, White, Numbers

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

Abraham Lincoln
Littles, Enjoy, Asks
David W. Bartlett, Abraham Lincoln (1860). “The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin”, p.197

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

Abraham Lincoln
Taken, Mean, Army
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.924, Jazzybee Verlag

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Abraham Lincoln
Slavery, Slave
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.64, Courier Corporation

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

Abraham Lincoln
Winning, Men, Ideas

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Spring, Hunting
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

Abraham Lincoln
Hate, World, Down And
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Wildside Press LLC

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Abraham Lincoln
Genius, Path, Distinction
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Desire, United States
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.723, Jazzybee Verlag

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Abraham Lincoln
Law, Unjust, May
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.295, Fordham Univ Press

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational Life, Long, People

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Lord

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Gingerbread, Earth

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Abraham Lincoln
Inspiring, Inspire, Enemy

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Abraham Lincoln
Purpose

My policy is to have no policy.

Abraham Lincoln
Policy
Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2908, Modern Library

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Abraham Lincoln
War, Alcohol, Ulysses's Grant

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Harm, Humans
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.45, Courier Corporation

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Art, Writing
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Democracy, Liberty
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.120, Stanford University Press

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

Abraham Lincoln
Ideas, White, Kansas
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, Springfield, Illinois, web.archive.org. June 26, 1857.

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

Abraham Lincoln
Uncles, Sea, Rivers
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.189, Cambridge University Press