Motivational Quotes

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves and, under a just God,

cannot long retain it.

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.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,

but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The people know their rights,

and they are never slow to assert

and maintain them when they are invaded.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that

which devolved upon Washington.

Unless the great God, who assisted him,

shall be with me and aid me, I must fail;

but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm

that directed and protected him shall guide and support me,

I shall not fail I shall succeed.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children,

and then sell them into interminable bondage,

with no other motive than that

which is furnished by dollars and cents,

is so much worse than the most depraved murderer

that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

Standing as I do,

with my hand upon this staff,

and under the folds of the American flag,

I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State

Constitution tolerating polygamy,

will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

I am humble Abraham Lincoln.

I have been solicited by my friends to

become a candidate for the Legislature.

My politics are short and sweet,

like the old woman's dance.

The mystic cords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to

every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched,

as surely they will be,

by the angels of our nature.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you,

or a man into voting for you,

try it till you are satisfied.

I am naturally anti slavery.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous.

We know the court that made it has

often overruled its own decisions,

and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

Important principles may,

and must,

be inflexible.