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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Earth, Lasts

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Unfinished Work, Long
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Believe, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Brother, Community
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

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

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Sobriety, Desire
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.10, Fordham Univ Press

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

Abraham Lincoln
Would Be, Belief, Affair

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Judging, Principles
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.124, Stanford University Press

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Abraham Lincoln
Giving, Slavery, Be A Slave
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Abraham Lincoln
Principles, Definitions, Free Society
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.2600, Modern Library

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Abraham Lincoln
Weakness, Driving, Conviction

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Abraham Lincoln
Distance, Space, Mind
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.2339, Modern Library

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

Abraham Lincoln
Dream, Believe, Sleep
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Unity
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

Too many piglets not enough tits.

Abraham Lincoln
Stupidity, Piglet, Enough

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Thinking, Office
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Victory, Earth, Green
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

Abraham Lincoln
Names, Long, Shining

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Prayer, Humble
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1403, Jazzybee Verlag

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Abraham Lincoln
Dream, Stupid, Dumb
"Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln
Humor, Blood, Knavery

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

Abraham Lincoln
Fall, Behinds, Correspondence
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.43, Penguin

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

Abraham Lincoln
Genius, Path, Beaten

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

Abraham Lincoln
Advice, Wish, Together
Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.208, Transaction Publishers

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Soul, World
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.65, Library of America