Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
Hodgenville, Kentucky
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Education
"Fourscore 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."
"Achievement has no color."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when i make them my friends?"
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the thecitizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."
"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.."
"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
"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, and beer."
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
"The bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never assent to the long, complicated statenents of Christian dogma."
"When I do good, I feel good. When I feel bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
"Labor is prior to and independent of, capital, Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves mucg the higher consideration."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln
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Name of Art:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abe Lincoln
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Photo-Farmed and Color-Texture-Altered. Digitally drawn with a stylus on Iphone from referenced elbow statue. brought to larger resolution for prints large.
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"The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community." - James Garfield
"So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk." -Thomas Edison
"Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"...The South...degraded labor, kept it in ignorance, and enervted the governing class. ...labot of the country was not skilled, nor allowed to become so. The whites could not toil without becoming degraded."
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold calculating reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense."
"Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected,mind, all encompassing mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail!" -Abraham Lincoln
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