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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

«Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.»
«No. The mule has just four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.»
«To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: ballots
«I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha»
«Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets»
«We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope»
«Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet»
«Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation»
«I can't spare this man; he fights.»
«Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice.»