Abraham Lincoln on Humor
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Abraham Lincoln, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, entry #32763: "Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, entry #134873: "Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."
4 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln on Humor
"Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue."
"Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."
"Mister Lincoln then took up the Massachusetts shoemakers' strike, treating it in a humorous and philosophical manner, and exposing to ridicule the foolish pretense of Senator Douglas, that the strike arose from 'this unfortunate sectional warfare'. Mister Lincoln thanked God that we have a system of labor where there can be a strike. Whatever the pressure, there is a point where the workman may stop."
"He didn't pretend to be familiar with the subject of the shoe strike, probably knew as little about it as Senator Douglas himself. This strike has occurred as the Senator says, or it has not. Shall we stop making war upon the South? We never have made war upon them. If any one has, better go and hang himself and save Virginia the trouble. If you give up your convictions and call slavery right as they do, you let slavery in upon you, instead of white laborers who can strike, you'll soon have black laborers who can't strike."