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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Doe
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.448, ReadHowYouWant.com

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

Abraham Lincoln
Horse, War, Civil War

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Hands, Issues
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Army, Half

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Said

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Holes, Knows
Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Abraham Lincoln
Divine Revelation, Judgment, Lord
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Abraham Lincoln
Change, Heart, Past
Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Heart, Thinking
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Years, Class
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.159, Fordham Univ Press

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Abraham Lincoln
Law, Principles, Negative
Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

Abraham Lincoln
Spring, Firsts, Ache
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.61, Stanford University Press

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Government, Female
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.144, Jazzybee Verlag

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Fool, Dare
"Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War". Book by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, 1922.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

Abraham Lincoln
Enemy, World, Friends And Enemies
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

Abraham Lincoln
Passion, Sleep, Ideas

I think I stand where that man stands.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Thinking, Atheism

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
Slavery, Want, Deals

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln
Love, God, Men
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Men, Principles
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.680, Jazzybee Verlag

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln
Long, Walks, Backwards

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Heart, Would Be
Abraham Lincoln (1842). “An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln: Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield Illinois, on the 22d Day of February, 1842”, p.12

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Abraham Lincoln
Government, Worthy, Labor
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.338, Modern Library

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Political Revolution, Long
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.52, Penguin

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Example, Extravagance
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.135, Cambridge University Press