We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot. Abraham Lincoln More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln More Quotes From Abraham Lincoln If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work. Abraham Lincoln government struggle people It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion. Abraham Lincoln fit lines able Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation. Abraham Lincoln reverence political law My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. Abraham Lincoln slavery struggle war If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. Abraham Lincoln four men two In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour. Abraham Lincoln sweat light work No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln funny-sex anniversary humor So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself. Abraham Lincoln selfish mistake men Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration. Abraham Lincoln giving-up men peace One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. Abraham Lincoln southern powerful war Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. Abraham Lincoln money-power adversity bankers Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream. Abraham Lincoln streams horse middle Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. Abraham Lincoln distance space mind 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. Abraham Lincoln sobriety desire mean If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams. Abraham Lincoln dream sleep believe If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us. Abraham Lincoln affair belief would-be Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten. Abraham Lincoln fighting business men Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object. Abraham Lincoln principles judging men The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth. Abraham Lincoln victory green earth Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Abraham Lincoln gettysburg war long
