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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Abraham Lincoln
Giving, Society, Capable

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership, Humility, Giving
Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Mean, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Abraham Lincoln
Reading, Keys, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Giving, Civil War
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Reading, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln
Military, Sleep, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.250, Рипол Классик

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Thinking, Giving

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Abraham Lincoln
Dog, Inspiration, Giving
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln
Book, Giving, My Best Friend

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Light, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1392, Jazzybee Verlag

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

Abraham Lincoln
Dream, Heart, Giving
Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.188, Fordham Univ Press

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Abraham Lincoln
Character, Adversity, Giving

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Abraham Lincoln
Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

Abraham Lincoln
Christian, Long, Giving

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Rights, Giving

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln
Love, Peace, Giving
"Fragment of a Speech" ca. 18 May 1858.

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 prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

Abraham Lincoln
Work, Land, Giving
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.161, Fordham Univ Press

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

Abraham Lincoln
Learning, Men, Giving