02c. 1837 ADLet not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
03c. 1837 ADIt is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
04c. 1837 ADRepeal 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1837 ADI remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
06c. 1837 ADThese men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
07c. 1837 ADMy 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1837 ADIt was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
10c. 1837 ADI should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
11c. 1837 ADOur Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
12c. 1837 ADI care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
13c. 1837 ADThat I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
14c. 1837 ADYou can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
15c. 1837 ADI 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1837 ADI never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
17c. 1837 ADNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
18c. 1837 ADThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
19c. 1837 ADWhatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
20c. 1837 ADFor my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
21c. 1837 ADSir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
22c. 1837 ADThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
23c. 1837 ADSurely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
24c. 1837 ADNo matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln / quote ↗
