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The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

Book by Abraham Lincoln · 11 quotes · Civil War, Humor, Inspirational

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The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations Quotes

“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.”

“You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.”