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Quote DB :: Authors :: Abraham Lincoln :: View Quote View Quote "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Abraham Lincoln Listed in: America Source: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.77  Rate Quote 13 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Abraham Lincoln "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day." "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." "I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side." Top 5 quotes from America "The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe." "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." "There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." "In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them." "The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."

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