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'Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye is the greatest invention of the world. Its utility may be conceived by the reflection that to it we owe everything which distinguishes us from savages. Take it from us, and the Bible, all history, all science, all government, all commerce, and nearly all social intercourse, go with it.'
- Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 125

According to Horace Greeley, the editor of the influential New York Tribune, who had excoriated Lincoln in the past for his ‘mistaken deference’ to slavery, the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was ‘one of those facts in human history which marks not only an era in the progress of the nation, but an epoch in the history of the world.’

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 124

'With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.'
- Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 123

According to Lincoln’s senior partner at the time, right after he passed the bar exam, Lincoln’s ‘knowledge of the law was very small … but he would get a case and try to know all there was connected to it; and in that way he got to be quite a formidable lawyer.’

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 122

'We have as all will agree a free Government where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.'
- Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 121

'You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently.'
- Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Wit/Wisdom 120

'Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest.'
- Abraham Lincoln