When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham LincolnTags: religion abraham-lincoln
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham LincolnTags: gardening abraham-lincoln self-sufficiency
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
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There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
Seth Grahame-SmithTags: war vampires abraham-lincoln
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.
Seth Grahame-SmithTags: equality freedom abraham-lincoln
They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, “the man who freed the slaves.” He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not.
Shelby FooteTags: politics abraham-lincoln slavery american-civil-war politics-of-the-united-states slavery-in-america slavery-in-the-united-states
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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