Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnTags: planning preparation
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
Abraham LincolnNo man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Abraham LincolnLet me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Abraham LincolnThe Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Abraham LincolnTags: religion abraham-lincoln
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
Abraham LincolnBe not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
Abraham LincolnNo matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham LincolnThe loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
Abraham LincolnOur safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham LincolnTags: democracy government separation-of-powers judicial-power republicanism
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