10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

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.

In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free

honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve.

We shall nobly save,

or meanly lose,

the last best hope of earth.

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.

Important principles may,

and must,

be inflexible.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

If we could first know where we are,

and whither we are tending,

we could then better judge what to do,

and how to do it.

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know

what his grandson will be.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation

whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,

and you allow him to do so whenever

he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose

and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Everybody likes a compliment.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Lets have faith that right makes might;

and in that faith let us,

to the end,

dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Public sentiment is everything.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.