Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Enjoy
  • Common
  • Condition

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Up
  • Law
  • Stop

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Stone
  • First Time

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wife

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
  • Oil
  • Clean
  • Bright

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Career
  • Government
  • Politics

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Evil

• But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • Time
  • Rebel

• Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

  

  Louis Bonaparte
  • Limits
  • Stupidity
  • Rascality

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Free
  • Fighting
  • Military

• I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Slaves