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Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Pockets, Titles
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.45, Fordham Univ Press

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Abraham Lincoln
Political, Civil War, Trying
Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Action, Cases
"The Portable Abraham Lincoln".

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, Faith, Book

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Abraham Lincoln
Truth Is
abraham lincoln (1910). “ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

Abraham Lincoln
People, Feelings, Littles
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
Looks, Persons

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Abraham Lincoln
Death, Kill Me, Dies
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Government, Public Opinion
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.385, Wildside Press LLC

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

Abraham Lincoln
Humor, Two, Faces

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership, Men, Inspire
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Abraham Lincoln
Change, Success, Hurt
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.358, Library of America

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

Abraham Lincoln
Education, Teacher, Teaching
Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Abraham Lincoln
Being Thankful, Election, Ifs
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.26, University Press of Kentucky

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Abraham Lincoln
Father, Mean, Race
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.271, Library of America

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln
Slavery, Abstract, Knows
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.80, Penguin

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Abraham Lincoln
Class, Slavery, Traders
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Abolition Of Slavery, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.109, Penguin

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
Judging, Community, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.334, University of Chicago Press

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Abraham Lincoln
Awareness, True Ones, Seeing

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance, Mind, Failing
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln
Civil War, Slavery, Rebellion
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.12, Penguin

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Passion, Tired
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.162, Penguin

Be excellent and party on dudes.

Abraham Lincoln
Funny, Life, Party

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Unions, Pilots
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.216, Wildside Press LLC