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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

Abraham Lincoln
School, Rights, Rome

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Cute
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Abraham Lincoln
Positive, Peace, Mean

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

Abraham Lincoln
Stars, History, Flags

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Saboteurs, Damage

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Abraham Lincoln
Time, Losing, Lost
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.81, Algonquin Books

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
Loyalty, Wisdom, Honesty
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.25, University of Chicago Press

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Encouraging, Wise
Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, Father, Character
Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.39, Stanford University Press

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Food, Shadow

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Abraham Lincoln
Faith, Prayer, Inspiration
Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.139, Stackpole Books

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln
Death, Hypocrite, Men
Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

Abraham Lincoln
Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Noble, Spirit

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Libertarian, Helping
Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Abraham Lincoln
Success, Money, Attitude
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

Abraham Lincoln
Happiness, Depression, Believe

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln
Change, Freedom, Father
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
"Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Spring, Should Have

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Abraham Lincoln
Rights, Conflict, Humans

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Abraham Lincoln
Yoga, Procrastination, Done
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

Abraham Lincoln
Despair, Temperance, Teach
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC