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" Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. "
Abraham Lincoln
Possible
Much
Chew
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" I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise. "
Abraham Lincoln
Men
Believe
Act
" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Grow
Exercise
Government
" I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. "
Abraham Lincoln
Great
Support
God
" True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. "
Abraham Lincoln
Wrong
True
Patriotism
" If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. "
Abraham Lincoln
Prove
Skin
Living
" In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. "
Abraham Lincoln
Earth
Free
Giving
" It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. "
Abraham Lincoln
Think
Country
Free
" Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South. "
Abraham Lincoln
Mind
Slavery
New
" I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. "
Abraham Lincoln
Fall
House
Will
" The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. "
Abraham Lincoln
Probability
Support
Struggle
" I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. "
Abraham Lincoln
Best
Flower
Me
" The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slow
Know
Never
" To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. "
Abraham Lincoln
Against
Circumstances
Judgment
" Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. "
Abraham Lincoln
Must
May
Principles
" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "
Abraham Lincoln
Would
Democracy
Idea
" I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. "
Abraham Lincoln
Mother's Day
Life
Me
" Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Others
Who
Freedom
" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "
Abraham Lincoln
Speak
Heart
History
" A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. "
Abraham Lincoln
Justice
Right
Soldier
" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "
Abraham Lincoln
Animals
Wild
Father
" The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. "
Abraham Lincoln
Rise
Way
Man
" With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. "
Abraham Lincoln
Finish
Charity
See
" The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. "
Abraham Lincoln
Africa
Man
Her
" I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. "
Abraham Lincoln
Think
Quiet
New
" I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
Remember
I Am
" I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. "
Abraham Lincoln
Improve
Own
Only
" My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. "
Abraham Lincoln
Virginia
Second
Say
" Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. "
Abraham Lincoln
Place
Men
Loving
" Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. "
Abraham Lincoln
Mother
Her
Books
" 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 some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slave
Leaving
Alone