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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

Abraham Lincoln
Money, Political, Wish
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Wish, Politics

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Views, Relief
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Abraham Lincoln
Liberty, Slavery, Prosperity
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.391, University of Chicago Press

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

Abraham Lincoln
Learning, Events, Passing
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.543, Library of America

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

Abraham Lincoln
Ambition, Two, Race

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

Abraham Lincoln
Ambition, Crowns, Might

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Abraham Lincoln
Education, Father, Years
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.617, Modern Library

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Abraham Lincoln
Support You, Government, Done
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Government, Maintenance
Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1862). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1862”, p.289

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

Abraham Lincoln
Arbitration, Disagreeable
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.394, Wildside Press LLC

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Abraham Lincoln
Punishment, Trying, Merit
"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Abraham Lincoln
Volunteer, Captains, Pleasure
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, School, Boys
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Legislature, Beaten

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Independence, Unions
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.40, Penguin

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Unions, Way
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.388, Wildside Press LLC

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Law, Needs
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.408, Wildside Press LLC

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Lasts, Faces

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

Abraham Lincoln
Funny, War, Humor

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

Abraham Lincoln
Eye, Dark, Hair
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.108, Library of America

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

Abraham Lincoln
Education, Father, Book

I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Rights, People
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.428, Library of America

While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Opportunity, Men, White Man
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.362, Wildside Press LLC