How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln More Quotes From Abraham Lincoln By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all. Abraham Lincoln illustration horse should-have If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected. Abraham Lincoln eye dark hair If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. Abraham Lincoln civil-war slave unions I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies. Abraham Lincoln education father book 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 If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'. Abraham Lincoln able vices ifs As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past. Abraham Lincoln problem past When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends." Abraham Lincoln president friendship enemy So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! Abraham Lincoln women war book Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation. Abraham Lincoln ohio glory war Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over Abraham Lincoln civil-war war I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. Abraham Lincoln slavery littles war The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent. Abraham Lincoln fighting strong war Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Abraham Lincoln self spring motivational The severest justice may not always be the best policy Abraham Lincoln prison justice may One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well. Abraham Lincoln security wells excellence We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. Abraham Lincoln slavery slave People are just as happy as they choose to be. Abraham Lincoln people The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Abraham Lincoln civil-war sacrifice pride Human-nature will not change. Abraham Lincoln human-nature humans change
