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I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Abraham Lincoln
United States, May, Constitution

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

Abraham Lincoln
Wise, Hands, Justice
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.51, Wildside Press LLC

Every head should be cultivated.

Abraham Lincoln
Education, Should
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Fathers Day, Future
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Work, Numbers
Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

Abraham Lincoln
Prayer, War, Men
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Cheer, Prayer
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Abraham Lincoln
Dread, Constant, Dies
Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, Ch. 13

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Encouragement, Business
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1330, Jazzybee Verlag

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, Cutting, Opportunity

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, History, Today
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.747, Modern Library

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Family, Mothers Day
Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Abraham Lincoln
Adversity, Succeed, Failing
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Humor, Vaccines

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, War, Past

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Abraham Lincoln
Army, Men, Doors
"The Writings of Abraham Lincoln" by Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 5, (pp. 6-7), 2004.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln
Running, Acceptance, Elephants
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

Abraham Lincoln
Saving, Firsts, Virtue

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Abraham Lincoln
Laughter, Mind, Awful

We cannot escape history.

Abraham Lincoln
History
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln
Crush, Suicide, Military

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Faith, Attitude
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Abraham Lincoln
Dark, People, Political
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

Abraham Lincoln
Fighting, Conquer, Ends
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Wildside Press LLC