"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. Basler, Volume II, "First Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions" (April 6, 1858), p. Man is not the only animal who labors but he is the only one who improves his workmanship." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. "Beavers build houses but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day." Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks edited by Michael Burlingame (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." Lincoln and the Civil War In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay selected by Tyler Dennett (New York, Da Capo Press, 1988), p. Basler, Volume V, "Letter to Horace Greeley" (August 22, 1862), p. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. "I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end. "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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