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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice,

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Law, Rights
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

Abraham Lincoln
Civil War, Unions, Slave
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Men, Games
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.343, Wildside Press LLC

Shall we stop this bleeding?

Abraham Lincoln
Bleeding
"Fictional character: Abraham Lincoln". "Lincoln", 2012.

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Class, Evil
Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.905, Open Road Media

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

Abraham Lincoln
War, People, United States
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.496, Library of America

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln
Law, Lazy, Lawyer
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1431, Jazzybee Verlag

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Abraham Lincoln
Funny, Success, Humorous
Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

Abraham Lincoln
Kings, War, Men
Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

Abraham Lincoln
Love, Pleasure, Ends
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.113, Wildside Press LLC

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Abraham Lincoln
Forever, Unions, Action
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Kings, War
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.36, Algonquin Books

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Abraham Lincoln
Wise, Employment, Politics

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Time, Thinking, Done
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.226, Jazzybee Verlag

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.148, Madison & Adams Press

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Country, Prayer
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.535, Wildside Press LLC

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Blair

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Abraham Lincoln
War, People, Speech
Abraham Lincoln, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1970). “Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Thinking, Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.907, Jazzybee Verlag

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Men, Despotism
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

Abraham Lincoln
Mother, Father, Writing

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Slavery, Littles
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.127, University Press of Kentucky

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

Abraham Lincoln
People

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, People, Civil War
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Tire, Paine
"A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.