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Title: Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln

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WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS

FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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CONTENTS:

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 1 [Etext #2653] 1linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 2 [Etext #2654] 2linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 3 [Etext #2655] 3linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 4 [Etext #2656] 4linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 5 [Etext #2657] 5linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 6 [Etext #2658] 6linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 7 [Etext #2659] 7linc10.txt

The Entire Writings of Lincoln, [Etext #3253] lnent10.txt

WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 1

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Abolition

Advice to Youth

Affected Contempt of Refinement

Always Inclined to Idealize That Which We Love

Attempt to Beguile You from Your Grief

Avoid Being Idle

Bad Laws

Bad Bargain

Beauty and Strength of Simplicity.

Could Not Afford to Make Money

Direct While Appearing to Obey

Education

Endeavoring to Blow up a Storm That He May Ride upon

Events Control Me; I Cannot Control Events

Falsehood

Farce

Father Abraham

Favor to Me Would Be Injustice to the Public

Fees We Earn at a Distance

Gals, Tied as Tight in the Middle

General Grant

Good, Bright, Passable Lie

His Parts Seemed to Be Raised by the Demands of Great Station

House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

I Can't Spare That Man, He Fights!

Idealization Which So Easily Runs into the Commonplace

If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong

Ignored the Insult, but Firmly Established His Superiority

Inability to Say "No" as a Positive Weakness

Leave Us to Take Care of Ourselves

Let Us to the End Dare to Do Our Duty as We Understand It

Lincoln-Shields Duel

Lost Townships

Manifested His Courage to Stand Alone

Marriage,

Murder Case

National Bank

No Hanging after all

Not Meddling

Not One Slave or One Drunkard

Not Seldom Ragged, Usually Patched, and Always Shabby.

Not Appearing on the Appointed Wedding Day

One Long Step Removed from Honest Men

Patronizing If Not Contemptuous Condescension

Pay the Fiddler

Peace at Any Price Rose on All Sides

People Became Bound by a Genuine Sentimental Attachment

Plain People, Had to Furnish the Men for the Fighting

Political Smear

Posterity Has Done Nothing

President Polk

Professions Instead of Their Practices

Reorganization of the Judiciary

Revolutions Never Go Backward

Right Makes Might

Sale of Public Lands

Shift His Ground

Shortly You Are to Feel Well Again

Shut in with a Few Books and to Master Them Thoroughly

Silence Might Be Construed into a Confession

Silent Artillery of Time

Slavery

Sympathy Was the Strongest Element in His Nature

Take Advice with Candid Readiness

Taking Care to Cut His Expressions Close

Thought of Their Mind—articulated in His Tongue

Too Silly to Require Any Sort of Notice

Uncommon Power of Clear and Compact Statement

Voice Shrill and Piercing

Wear the Sweetest Idea Threadbare

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy They First Make Mad

Widow v.s. Gen. Adams

You Work and Toil and Earn Bread and I'll Eat It

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 2

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Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia

Abolition Movement

Abolition Societies as Far South as Virginia

All Agreed on this Except South Carolina and Georgia

Allowing the People to Do as They Please

Amalgamation

Apportionment

Argument of "Necessity"

Autobiography

Benefit Only a Portion of Them

Benefits of That Double Position

Bill Granting Lands to the States

Blood Will Flow on Account of Nebraska

British

Brother's Hands Will Be Raised Against Brother!

Compromise Whenever You Can

Compromises

Continental Congress

Counterfeit Logic

Crime to Tell Him That He Is Free!

Danger of Third-parties

Declaration of Independence

Declaring the African Slave Trade Piracy

Dirge of One Who Has No Title to Himself

Disunionists

Dred Scott

Equality

Evasive with His Wife

Execrable Commerce

Father's Request for Money

Free All the Slaves, and Send Them to Liberia

Fugitive Slave Law

General of Splendidly Successful Charges

Government Was Made for the White People

Henry Clay

Hypocracy

Improvements

Inform a Negro of His Legal Rights

Interested Faultfinders

Just Leave Her Alone

Kings

Let the Slavery of the Other States Alone

Letters to Family Members

Locos

Loss of Primary for Senator

Mexico

Missouri Compromise

Mixing of Blood by the White and Black Races

Moderation

Mulattoes

National Bank

Nebraska Measure

Need Not Have Her for Either—I Can Just Leave Her Alone

Never Stir up Litigation

No Law, Is Free Law!

No Man can be Silent if He Would

Only One Vote, and That from New York, Was Against it

Opportunities for Young Politicians

Out-of-state Campaigners

Peoria Speech

Political Appointments

Political Jealousy

Politically and Socially Our Equals

Proneness of Prosperity to Breed Tyrants

Refund of Legal Charges

Repeal of the Missouri Compromise

Republican Position

Request for a Patent

Request for a Railway Pass

Request for General Land-Office Appointment

Response to a Pro-slavery Friend

Return to Law Profession

Revolutions Do Not Go Backward

Sacred Right of Self-government

Second Child

Should Be Permitted to Keep the Little He Has

Slave-traders

Slavery Can Only Be Maintained by Force—by Violence

Slavery Was Recognized, by South and North Alike, as an Evil

Squatter or Popular Sovereignty

Stand with Anybody That Stands Right

Sumner

Superior Race

Suspicion

Third-parties

Those Who Deny Freedom to Others

Victory of Buchanan

We Cannot Then Make Them Equals

We Do Not Want to Dissolve the Union; You Shall Not.

We Won't Go out of the Union, and You Shan't!

Whipped

Wilmot Proviso

You Are Not Lazy, and Still You Are an Idler.

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 3

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Affirmative Charge, He must Offer Some Proof

Bread That His Own Hands Have Earned

Brooks, of South Carolina

Circumstantial Evidence

Conspiracy to Perpetuate and Nationalize Slavery

Cotton Gin

Counterfeit Logic

Course of Ultimate Extinction

Distinction Between a Purpose and an Expectation

Dred Scott

Extremely Good Name since it Has Passed Away

First Joint Debate, at Ottawa

Fugitive Slave Law

Gingerbread

God Gave Him but Little, That Little Let Him Enjoy

Government Cannot Endure Permanently Half Slave and Half Free

Henry Clay

House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

If You Do Not like Him, Let Him Alone

In the Course of Ultimate Extinction

Institution of Slavery in the States Where it Exists

It Will Become All One Thing, or All the Other

Kingcraft

Lincoln and Douglas Debates

Man Cannot Prove a Negative

Mexico

Nationalization of Slavery

Negro Cannot Make a Choice

No Legal Power to Choose

No Wrong Without its Remedy

People Were Better off for Being Ridden

Perfect an Understanding Without Talking as with It

Physical Difference Between the Two

Political Effects of Their Dead Adversaries

Popular Sovereignty

Probably Forever Forbid Their Living Together

Public Sentiment

Quibbles

Repentance Before Forgiveness

Republican Position

Right to Eat the Bread He Earns

Second Joint Debate, at Freeport

Set the Niggers and White People to Marrying

Short of a Clear Popular Majority

Smallest Are Often the Most Difficult Things to Deal with

Social and Political Equality with the Negro

Squatter Sovereignty

Superior Position

Taking Away the Little Which Has Been Given Him

Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 4

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Boiling the Shadow of a Pigeon That Had Starved to Death

Came Forward and Made a Virtue of Necessity

Common Right of Humanity

Constitution

Divine Right of Kings

Drowned Husband

Fifth Joint Debate

Fisherman's Wife

Forbids the Marrying of White People with Negroes

Forever Forbid the Two Races Living Together

Fourth Joint Debate

Frankly That I Am Not in Favor of Negro Citizenship

Get along Without Making Either Slaves or Wives of Negroes

Hard to Affirm a Negative

Homeopathic Soup

Inequality Between the White and Black Races

Invention of the Cotton-gin

Jefferson

Judges Are as Honest as Other Men, and Not More So

Just Let Her Alone

Last Joint Debate

Men Interested to Misunderstand

Must Be the Position of Superior and Inferior

Must Necessarily Want Her for a Wife

Negro Citizenship

Perpetuation of the Institution of Slavery a Necessity

Requires Us to Make Them Our Wives

Sixth Joint Debate

Slavery Shall Last Forever

Taking an Issue upon the Meaning of the Words

Trembled for His Country

You Work and Toil and Earn Bread, and I'll Eat It

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 5

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Abolishing Slavery in Washington, D.C. Abraham or "Abram" Acceptance of Nomination as Republican Candidate for President Accusation of Having Been Paid for a Political Speech Act in Such a Manner as to Create No Bad Feeling Agriculture American Party Armed Neutrality As Everywhere Else, Nothing Can Be Done As I Would Not Be a Slave, So I Would Not Be a Master. Asking Cabinet Opinions on Fort Sumter Attempt to Form and Coalition Cabinet Bankruptcy Blocking "Compromise" on Slavery Issue Bull Run Defeat Capital and Labor Cease to Call Slavery Wrong, and Join Them in Calling it Right Coercion Colonization Communication with Vice-president Compensated Emancipation Condolence over Failure of Ft. Sumter Relief Conservatism Constitution Alludes to Slavery Three Times Cooper Institute, New York Crisis Is All Artificial Crocodile Curious Mystery about the Number of the Troops Debates must Be Saved Delay Is Ruining Us Do Not Demand the Whole of this Just Now Don't Care Whether it Be Voted up or down Douglas's New Sedition Law Early Information on Army Defection in South Estimated as Mere Brutes—as Rightful Property Explanations Explanatory of Explanations Explained Familiarize Yourselves with the Chains of Bondage Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, First Inaugural Address First Suggestion of Offer of Presidency First Written Notice of Grant Folly of Being the Beginners of a War Form of Reply Prepared by Mr. Lincoln Further Reprimand of McClellan General Idea of this War Germans and Foreigners Give No Denial and No Explanation Government Will Not Assail You Gradual and Not Sudden Emancipation Is Better for All Gradual and Steady Debauching of Public Opinion Greatest Good to the Greatest Number Groping for Some Middle Ground Between the Right and the Wrong Gur-reat Pur-rinciple Homestead Law Horace Greeley Horse Chestnut to Be a Chestnut Horse I Authorize No Bargains and Will Be Bound by None I Have Not Been to School since I like the System Which Lets a Man Quit When He Wants to I must Say I Do Not Think Myself Fit for the Presidency I Shall Go to the Wall for Bread and Meat If the Minority Will Not Acquiesce, the Majority must Ills You Fly from Have No Real Existence Immediate Dissolution or Blood Insist That They Were Put up to it by Some Rascally Abolitionist Intentions Toward the South Is There in All Republics this Inherent and Fatal Weakness? It Is Bad to Be Poor It Is Exceedingly Discouraging Jibes and Sneers in Place of Argument John Brown Join Now to Save the Good Old Ship of the Union Keep Cool Labor Is the Superior of Capital Let it Alone and it Will Go down of Itself Let Us Be Diverted by None of Those Sophistical Contrivances Letter of Condolence to One of First Casualties Letter of Reprimand to General Hunter Letter Suggesting a Beard Lincoln's Definition of Democracy Lincoln's Election Localized Repeal of Writ of Habeas Corpus Malicious Slander Merely a Matter of Dollars and Cents Middle Ground Between the Right and the Wrong Misrepresentation More a Man Speaks the less He Is Understood Mortgages National Census Negroes Are Men No Attempt to Force Obnoxious Strangers among the People No Conflict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors No Other Marks or Brands Recollected Nomination to the National Ticket Not Grudgingly, but Fully and Fairly Nothing Valuable Can Be Lost by Taking Time On Lincoln's Scrap Book One Bad General Is Better than Two Good Ones Opinion on Secession Opposition to McClellan's Plans Order to Defend from a Maryland Insurrection Out of Money Patronage Claims Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Placed Him Where the Ray of Hope Is Blown out Political Prisoners Popular Sovereignty President's General War Order Proclamation Calling for Volunteers, Proclamation Calling for Militia Proclamation Forbidding Intercourse with Rebel States Proclamation of Blockade Protective Tariffs Public Opinion in this Country Is Everything Refusal of Seward Resignation Relief Expedition for Fort Sumter Remarks to a Military Company, Washington Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law Reply to Secretary Seward's Memorandum Republican Position Republicans, on the Contrary, Are for Both the Man and the Dollar Respite for Nathaniel Gordon Response to an Elector's Request for Money Right Makes Might Rise up and Preserve the Union and Liberty Running for Election Say Nothing Insulting or Irritating Secession Is the Essence of Anarchy Sectional Party Senate Inquiry Re. Fort Sumter Seward's Bid for Power Shoe Strike Silence Will Not Be Tolerated Slow to Listen to Criminations Solomon Says There Is "A Time to Keep Silence" Some Forts Surrrendered to the South Spoken of among Reptiles and Crocodiles Support of the Fugitive Slave Clause Suppressing All Declarations That Slavery Is Wrong Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Florida Taking Slaves into New Territories Telegram to General Fremont, That the Federal Union must Be Preserved. The Fight must Go on Their Thinking it Right and Our Thinking it Wrong Travel to Washington D.c. Treason Two Sons Who Want to Work Unauthorized Biography Union of These States Is Perpetual Venomous Snake Wanting to Work Is So Rare a Want What Is a State When I Came of Age I Did Not Know Much Wisely Given Their Public Servants but Little Power for Mischief Wish No Explanation Made to Our Enemies Wrangle by the Mouth You must Stop Thinking Slavery Wrong!

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 6

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Act of Compensated Emancipation Advantage Aid to Mrs. Helm, Mrs. Lincoln's Sister Announcement of News from Gettysburg. Ask of You Military Success, and I Will Risk the Dictatorship Blockade Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended Call for Militia to Serve for Six Months Colonization Compensated Emancipation, Confiscation Act Conspiracy of Rebellion Continued Failure to Pursue Enemy Delaying Tactics of Generals Divine Will Does Not Admit of Holidays Don't Think it Will Do Him a Bit of Good Either Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation, Escape History Executing Indians Experiment of Negotiation Factional Quarrels Farragut Fitz-John Porter Court-martial Fredericksburg Further Democratic Party Criticism General Grant Is a Copious Worker General McClellans Tired Horses Generals Lost Government Needed a Dictator Grant—Very Meager Writer or Telegrapher Grant's Exclusion of a Newspaper Reporter Greeley Habeas Corpus History of Conspiracy of Rebellion Hold My Hand Whilst the Enemy Stabs Me Holidays I Am Not Quite Satisfied with You If Both Factions, or Neither, Shall Abuse You Ignored the Evils and Magnified the Necessity Ignored the Necessity and Magnified the Evils of the System Interview Between the President and General McClellan Jews Lee's Army, and Not Richmond, Is Your True Objective Point Let the Military Obey Orders Likely to Capture the "Man in the Moon" Military Strategy Mrs. Lincoln's Rebel Brother-in-law Killed Needs New Tires on His Carriage Negotiation Negro Troops News of Grant's Capture of Vicksburg Order Constituting the Army of Virginia. Order Expelling All Jews from Your Department Order Making Halleck General-in-chief. Order of Retaliation Order Relieving General G. B. McClellan Ox Jumped Half over a Fence Pardoned Pay and Send Substitutes Political Motivated Misquotation in Newspaper Pope's Bull Against the Comet Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Printing Money Proclamation Concerning Taxes Proclamation Recalling Soldiers to Their Regiments Prohibiting the Export of Arms Remembered in Spite of Ourselves Request to Suggest Name for a Baby Response to a "Besieged" General Sabbath Self-reliance Son in College Does Not Write His Parents Statehood for West Virginia Stocks Have Declined Substitutes Taking Military Possession of Railroads The Animal must Be Very Slim Somewhere To Critics of Emancipation To General U.S. Grant. Treaty with Mexico Vanderbilt What I Deal with Is Too Vast for Malicious Dealing Who Has the Right Needs Not to Fear Will Not Fight to Free Negroes You Were Right and I Was Wrong

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 7

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Address at Gettysburg

Address to General Grant,

Agreeably and Profitably Disappointed

All Know is Where He Went in At

And the War Came

Announcement Concerning Terms of Peace

Announcement of Union Success in East Tennessee

Annual Message to Congress

Another Female Spy

Bad Promises Are Better Broken than Kept

Better for Their Own Good than If They Had Been Successful

Blood Drawn with the Lash Shall Be Paid by Another

Call for Two Hundred Thousand Men.

Can't Tell Where He Will Come out At

Cannot Conciliate the South

Cannot Fly from My Thoughts

Capture of the City of Atlanta

Chew and Choke as Much as Possible

Christmas Gift, the Capture of Savannah

Chronologic Review of Peace Proposals

Colored Colony

Constitutional Amendment for the Abolishing of Slavery

Deserters Sentences Remitted to Hard Labor

Early Consultations with Rebels

Emancipation

Exemption of American Consuls from Military Service

Female Spy

First Overtures for Surrender from Davis

Five-star Mother

Fort Pillow Massacre

Four Score and Seven Years Ago

Gettysburg

Gratuitous Hostility

Greenback

Habeas Corpus

Harmon's Sandal Sock

Hawaiian Islands

Indians

Irresponsible Newspaper Reporters and Editors

Keep Cool

Kindness Not Quite Free from Ridicule

Labor

Last Public Address

Lecture on Liberty

Letter Accepting the Nomination for President.

Lieutenant-general of the Army of the United States

Malice Toward None, with Charity for All,

Many Arguments Why the Negroes Ought to Be Slaves

Massacre of Three Hundred Colored Soldiers

Mother of Five Sons Who Have Died

Must Not Force Negroes Any More than White Men

Nevada into the Union

Never Could Learn of His Giving Much Attention

Newspaper Reporters and Editors

Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing a Stream

Not Be Much Oppressed by a Debt Which They Owe to Themselves

On Democratic Government

On Disloyal Family Member

Order Concerning the Export of Tobacco

Order for a Draft of Five Hundred Thousand Men

Platform of the Union National Convention

Probable That this Administration Will Not Be Re-elected

Proclamation Concerning Indians

Proclamation about Amnesty

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

Proclamation Offering Pardon to Deserters,

Renomination

Republican National Convention

Richmond Is in Our Hands, and I Think I Will Go There To-morrow

Ridicule

Second Inaugural Address,

Sentence of Deserters.

Sheep and the Wolf Are Not Agreed

Sherman's March to the Sea

Slaves Are Now in the United States Military Service

Some Deference Shall Be Paid to the Will of the Majority

Story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Strikes

Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus

Thanks for Your Caution

That Some Should Be Rich Shows That Others May Become Rich

Too Lazy to Be Anything but a Lawyer

War at the Best Is Terrible

We Accepted this War, and Did Not Begin it

World Has Never Had a Good Definition of the Word Liberty

Would Make War Rather than Let the Nation Survive

Would Accept War Rather than Let it Perish

THE ENTIRE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

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100,000 slaves are now in the United States military service

Abolishing slavery in Washington, DC

Abraham or "Abram"

Act in such a manner as to create no bad feeling

Address at Gettysburg

Address to General Grant

Affected contempt of refinement

All know where he went in at; can't tell where he will come out at

All agreed on this except South Carolina and Georgia

And the war came

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master

Ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship

Bad promises are better broken than kept

Better for their own good than if they had been successful

Boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death

Bread that his own hands have earned

Came forward and made a virtue of necessity

Circumstantial evidence

Colonization

Common right of humanity

Compensated Emancipation

Conspiracy to perpetuate and nationalize slavery

Constitution alludes to slavery three times

Constitutional Amendment for the Abolishing of Slavery

Cotton gin

Could not afford to make money

Counterfeit logic

Counterfeit logic

Crime to tell him that he is free!

Danger of third-parties

Declaration of Independence

Declaring the African slave trade piracy

Direct while appearing to obey

Dirge of one who has no title to himself

Distinction between a purpose and an expectation

Don't think it will do him a bit of good either

Dred Scott

Dred Scott

Early Consultations with Rebels

Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation

Endeavoring to blow up a storm that he may ride upon

Estimated as mere brutes—as rightful property

Events control me; I cannot control events

Explanations explanatory of explanations explained

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage

Father's request for money

Female Spy

First Inaugural Address

First Overtures for Surrender from Davis

Five-star Mother

Forbids the marrying of white people with negroes

Forever forbid the two races living together

Fort Pillow Massacre

Four Score and Seven Years Ago

Frankly that I am not in favor of negro citizenship

Free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia

Fugitive Slave law

Further Democratic Party Criticism

General Grant is a copious worker

General McClellan's Tired Horses

General Grant

Get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes

Gingerbread

God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy

Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free

Government was made for the white people

Grant—very meager writer or telegrapher

Grant's Exclusion of a Newspaper Reporter

Gratuitous Hostility

Greeley

Hard to affirm a negative

Henry Clay

House divided against itself cannot stand

I can't spare that man, he fights!

I must say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency

I authorize no bargains and will be bound by none

I shall go to the wall for bread and meat

I like the system which lets a man quit when he wants to

Idealization which so easily runs into the commonplace

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong

If you do not like him, let him alone

Ills you fly from have no real existence

In the course of ultimate extinction

Irresponsible Newspaper Reporters and Editors

Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?

It is bad to be poor

Jews

Jibes and sneers in place of argument

Judges are as honest as other men, and not more so

Just leave her alone

Last Public Address

Lee's army, and not Richmond, is your true objective point

Letter Suggesting a Beard

Lincoln's Definition of Democracy

Lincoln's Election

Localized Repeal of Writ of Habeas Corpus

Malice Toward None, with Charity for All

Man cannot prove a negative

Massacre of Three Hundred Colored Soldiers

Men interested to misunderstand

Mexico

Middle ground between the right and the wrong??

Missouri Compromise

Mixing of blood by the white and black races

More a man speaks the less he is understood

Mother of Five Sons Who Have Died

Mrs. Lincoln's Rebel Brother-in-law Killed

Need not have her for either I can just leave her alone

Needs New Tires on His Carriage

Negro Troops

Never stir up litigation

News of Grant's Capture of Vicksburg

No wrong without its remedy

No man can be silent if he would

Not appearing on the appointed wedding day

Not Be Much Oppressed by a Debt Which They Owe to Themselves

Not seldom ragged, usually patched, and always shabby

Not Best to Swap Horses When Crossing a Stream

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time

One long step removed from honest men

Order expelling all Jews from your department

Order of Retaliation

Ox jumped half over a fence

Pardoned

Patronizing if not contemptuous condescension

Pay and send substitutes

Peace at any price rose on all sides

Printing Money

Probably forever forbid their living together

Public opinion in this country is everything

Repeal of the Missouri Compromise

Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law

Repentance before forgiveness

Reply to Secretary Seward's Memorandum

Revolutions never go backward

Revolutions do not go backward

Right to eat the bread he earns

Right makes might

Secession is the essence of anarchy

Second Inaugural Address,

Sentence of Deserters

Seward's Bid for Power

Sherman's March to the Sea

Should be permitted to keep the little he has

Slave-traders

Slavery was recognized, by South and North alike, as an evil

Smallest are often the most difficult things to deal with

Story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Strikes

Suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong

Take advice with candid readiness

Taking care to cut his expressions close

That Some Should Be Rich Shows That Others May Become Rich

The animal must be very slim somewhere

Thought of their mind—articulated in his tongue

Too Lazy to Be Anything but a Lawyer

Too silly to require any sort of notice

Trembled for his country

Two Sons Who Want to Work

Uncommon power of clear and compact statement

Wanting to work is so rare a want

War at the Best Is Terrible

We Accepted this War, and Did Not Begin it

We do not want to dissolve the Union; you shall not

What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing

Who has the right needs not to fear

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad

Wilmot Proviso

Wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief

World Has Never Had a Good Definition of the Word Liberty

Would Make War Rather than Let the Nation Survive

Would Accept War Rather than Let it Perish

You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it

You were right and I was wrong

You work and toil and earn bread and I'll eat it

You are not lazy, and still you are an idler

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