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Abraham Lincoln
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back ...”
The above quote alludes to the criticism of the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery.
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statues or decisions possible or impossible to execute.” 1860
“I have naver had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independance.”
“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
“So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!” ~ Lincoln upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe and referring to Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Abraham Lincoln
“What constitues the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength our our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all man, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own door.” Abraham Lincoln, 1864
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Abraham Lincoln
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” Abraham Lincoln
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Freedom -
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
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Freedom -
“I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere should be free.” - Abraham Lincoln
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Excellence
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln
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Think
“I spend two thirds of the time thinking what people want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
Abraham Lincoln
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It's Not the Years -
“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Do Not Worry -
“Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but these, I reckon, will give you a good lift!”~ Abraham Lincoln
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Text of Grace Bedell's letter-
Hon A B Lincoln...
Dear Sir
My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin's. I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. Have you any little girls about as large as I am if so give them my love and tell her to write to me if you cannot answer this letter. I have got 4 brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try to get every one to vote for you that I can I think that rail fence around your picture makes it look very pretty I have got a little baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be. When you direct your letter direct to Grace Bedell Westfield Chautauqua County New York.
I must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye
Grace Bedell
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Text of Lincoln's response:
Springfield, Ill Oct 19, 1860
Miss Grace Bedell
My dear little Miss
Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received - I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters - I have three sons - one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age - They, with their mother, constitute my whole family - As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Your very sincere well wisher
A. Lincoln
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