Ежедневник с Линкольном: аксиомы и афоризмы великого освободителя
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TWENTY-THIRD
He sticks through thick and thin,—I admire such a man.
TWENTY-FOURTH
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution,—certainly would if such right were a vital one.
TWENTY-FIFTH
My hand was tired; but my resolution was firm.
TWENTY-SIXTH
It is a difficult role, and so much the greater will be the honor if you perform it well.
TWENTY-SEVENTH
I shall write my papers myself. The people will understand them.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
Though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill-temper.
TWENTY-NINTH
Have confidence in yourself, a valuable if not indispensable quality.
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MARCH
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
FIRST
Twenty thousand is as much as any man ought to want.
SECOND
By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never given merely to save a limb.
THIRD
Trust to the good sense of the American people.
FOURTH
Let us judge not, that we be not judged.
FIFTH
Put the foot down firmly.
SIXTH
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion.
SEVENTH
I bring a heart true to the work.
EIGHTH
The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well.
NINTH
Most certainly I intend no injustice to any one, and if I have done any I deeply regret it.
TENTH
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
ELEVENTH
Action in the crisis of a nation must accord with its necessities, and therefore can seldom be confined to precedent.
TWELFTH
You can't put a long sword in a short scabbard.
THIRTEENTH
"I have made it a rule of my life," said the old parson, "not to cross Fox River until I get to it."
FOURTEENTH
It is sometimes well to be humble.
FIFTEENTH
Don't let joy carry you into excesses.
SIXTEENTH
Liberty is your birthright.
SEVENTEENTH
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or government will cease.
EIGHTEENTH
Learn the laws and obey them.
NINETEENTH
It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men.
TWENTIETH
It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.
TWENTY-FIRST
When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, better let him run.
TWENTY-SECOND
Whatever God designs, He will do for me yet.
TWENTY-THIRD
Quarrel not at all.
TWENTY-FOURTH
Let no opportunity of making a mark escape.
TWENTY-FIFTH
I want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases with women.
TWENTY-SIXTH
I should rejoice to be spared the labor of a contest, but being in I shall go it thoroughly.
TWENTY-SEVENTH
I intend discourtesy to no one.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
The doctrine of self-government is right—absolutely and eternally right.
TWENTY-NINTH
This government is expressly charged with the duty of providing for the general welfare.
THIRTIETH
We are not bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to reject all progress, all improvement.
THIRTY-FIRST
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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APRIL
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which we deem to be just.
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