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Abraham Lincoln, by Abraham Lincoln, Edited and Arranged by David Widger

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Title: Quotes and Images From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Abraham Lincoln
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: August 29, 2004 [EBook #7547]
[Last updated on February 17, 2007]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by David Widger

QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Included here are quotations and references to subjects in the eight
volumes of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". It begins with his first
political address in 1832 and ends with a hastily scrawled note on the
day of his assassination. I hoped that the design of the html page with
quotations scrolling down along the side of various steel engravings and
photographs of this great man might give the words a greater impact.
D. W.

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

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 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

Colonization

Common right of humanity

Compensated Emancipation

Conspiracy to perpetuate and nationalize slavery

Constitution alludes to slavery three times

Could not afford to make money

Counterfeit logic

Crime to tell him that he is free!

Danger of third-parties

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 exp