Abraham Lincoln Quotes

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

Abraham Lincoln

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• Five wives can't all be wrong.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wrong
  • Five
  • Wives

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
  • Me
  • Wrong

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Wrong
  • Boring

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• I love proving people wrong.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Proving

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Happy
  • Process
  • Wrong

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wrong
  • Doors
  • Philosophical

• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Wrong
  • Direction

• Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Mind
  • Reading

• Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

• If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

  

  George Foreman
  • Thinking
  • Son
  • Able

• When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

  

  Chris Copeland
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Leader

• We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Wrong
  • Claim