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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln

Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

Nationality: American

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Type: Politician

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Birth: 1809-1865

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which ar

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and ear

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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?

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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not go

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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears t

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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. 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.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroa

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

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I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.

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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.

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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon wi

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