But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life. Abraham Lincoln More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln More Quotes From Abraham Lincoln We cannot escape history. Abraham Lincoln history The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. Abraham Lincoln babylon difficulty basketball Most people are as happy as they want to be. Abraham Lincoln want people . . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . . Abraham Lincoln politics fighting peace You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution Abraham Lincoln middle age exercise By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will." Abraham Lincoln i-can ifs mean I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. Abraham Lincoln president trying life Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember Abraham Lincoln telling-the-truth witty remember With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Abraham Lincoln smile laughter happiness The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. Abraham Lincoln loss friendship enemy Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. Abraham Lincoln slave-labor slavery inspiration These 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 fairness equality men Destroy your enemy by making him your friend. Abraham Lincoln powerful-life-changing enemy I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy. Abraham Lincoln religious men thinking While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result. Abraham Lincoln grateful religious men In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. Abraham Lincoln congress-and-the-president civil-war giving Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. Abraham Lincoln money-power democracy humanity The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Abraham Lincoln judgment divine-revelation lord My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. Abraham Lincoln vices motivational men Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money. Abraham Lincoln prosperity fruit saving
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