Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
country hard-work numbers
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
hard-work men reason
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
hard-work comfort source
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
inspirational beautiful life-is-hard
Life is hard but so very beautiful
hard-work half lost
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
hard-work merit should
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
hard-work standards labor
Labor is the true standard of value.
hard-work winter animal
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. 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. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
war believe hard-work
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
hard-work world want
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
hard-work
Work, work, work, is the main thing.
fall hard-work rights
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.
hard-work years people
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.