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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

Abraham Lincoln
Mind, Wish, Chicago
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.190

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Where You Are, Can Not
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.374, Jazzybee Verlag

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Fighting, Unions
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.291, Fordham Univ Press

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, People, Constitution Of The United States
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Abraham Lincoln
Thorns, Should, Bosoms
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.255, Wildside Press LLC

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and 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, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

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

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Abraham Lincoln
Wife, Understanding, Want
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.2556, Modern Library

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

Abraham Lincoln
Needs, Unjust, May
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.234, Penguin

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Promise, Made
Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Рипол Классик

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

Abraham Lincoln
Mistake, Making Mistakes, Persons

Never change horses in midstream.

Abraham Lincoln
Patience, Horse, Never Change

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Abraham Lincoln
Money, Eagles, Gold
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.93, Stanford University Press

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Abraham Lincoln
Philosophical, Public Opinion, Doe
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.17, Wildside Press LLC

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln
Heart, Men, Winning

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Abraham Lincoln
Illinois, Government, Shots

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

Abraham Lincoln
Desire, Firsts, Slave
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Abraham Lincoln
Atheism, Fool, Messages

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Fighting, Wife

I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

Abraham Lincoln
Atheism, Facts, Lord
Abraham Lincoln (1894). “The Table Talk of Abraham Lincoln”

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Abraham Lincoln
Forgiveness, Past, Differences
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.88, Fordham Univ Press

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Wish, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1401, Jazzybee Verlag

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Desire, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Abraham Lincoln
Wall, Years, Meat
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.693, Jazzybee Verlag

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Wise, War
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Party, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin