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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Two, Toil
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Believe, Struggle
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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 am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Government, Life Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.635, Library of America

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Government, People

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Office, Way To Live
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Struggle, Slavery
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, War, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.623, Library of America

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Abraham Lincoln
Block, Struggle, Men

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Liberty, Events
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.297, Library of America

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Party, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Struggle, Men
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.505, Wildside Press LLC

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Humble, Hands
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.236, Wildside Press LLC

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Party, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Struggle, Men, Judging
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.203, Wildside Press LLC

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