An Anthology of the Epigrams and Sayings of Abraham Lincoln, Collected from His Writings and Speeches |
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CHESTNUT HORSE ARGUMENT Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words , by which a man can prove a horse - chestnut to be a chest- nut ...
CHESTNUT HORSE ARGUMENT Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words , by which a man can prove a horse - chestnut to be a chest- nut ...
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Page 42 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began, by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 17 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 10 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the •world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Page 61 - I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country...
Page 53 - Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.
Page 60 - Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he saw any live fighting Indians, it was more than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.
Page 26 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 61 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.
Page 8 - No one has needed favors more than I, and, generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it. That I once had the confidence of the people of Sangamon, is sufficiently evident...
Page 55 - The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty...
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| Title | An Anthology of the Epigrams and Sayings of Abraham Lincoln, Collected from His Writings and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Francis Dashwood Tandy |
| Publisher | F.D. Tandy Company, 1908 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 62 pages |
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