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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.–
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
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 may be on the Lord’s side.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
Abraham lincoln quotes on slavery
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
Let us remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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 up to what light I have.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham lincoln quotes on democracy
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Quotes by Abraham lincoln on leadership
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but leave him when he is wrong.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be
A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Here’s an object more of dread Than aught the grave contains- A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
I don’t know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
If I had eight hours to cut down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that the gifts of God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It is not best to swap horses while crossing a river.
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by his example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end do our duty as we understand it.
Military glory-that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood, that serpent’s eye that charms to destroy.
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
My concern is not whether God is on our side my great concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
No man is poor who has had a godly Mother.
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day. No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
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. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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, especially as the sheep was a black one. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
This great Book is the best gift God has given to man we could not know right from wrong.
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Whatever you are, be a good one. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people Is there any better or equal hope in the world Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. With malice toward none; with charity toward all. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.
Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve Abraham Lincoln Quotes
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth Abraham Lincoln Quotes
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right
All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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.
The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even one hundred defeats Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage Abraham Lincoln Quotes
In your hands my dissatisfied fellow-country-men, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
The government will not assail you
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving the others alone, I would also do that
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.
We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.
No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us.
The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators.
What I ask of you now is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories
Tell me the brand of Whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Most people are about as happy as they choose to be. op down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax.
I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not to do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Life is hard but so very beautiful It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great Abraham Lincoln Quotes
God who made him You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose Abraham Lincoln Quotes
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Common-looking people are the best in the world that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Human Action can be Modified to some Extent but Human Nature cannot be Changed.
Those who look for the Bad in People, Will Surely find It.
You can tell the Greatness of a Man by, What Makes him Angry.
You cannot Escape the Responsibility of Tomorrow by Evading it Today.
Leave Nothing for Tomorrow which can be Done Today.
In the End it is Not the Years in your Life that Count, it’s the Life in your Years.
Better to Remain Silent and be Thought a Fool, than to Speak out and Remove all Doubt. Every man’s Happiness is his Own Responsibility. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It often Requires more Courage to Dare to do Right, than to Fear to do Wrong.
When you Reach the End of your Rope, Tie a Knot and Hang on.
The Best thing about the Future is that is Comes One Day at a Time. Nearly all Men can stand Adversity but if you want to Test a Man’s Character, give him Power. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Be sure you put your Feet in the Right place and then Stand firm.
You have to do Your own Growing, No matter how tall your Grandfather was.
Great Concern is not whether you have Failed but whether you are Content with your Failure.
Love is the Chain to Lock a Child to its Parent.
Things may come to those who Wait but only the Things left by those who Hustle.
He has a Right to Criticize, who has a Heart to Help. I would rather be a Little Nobody, then to be an Evil
Somebody I walk slowly, but I never walk backward
I destroy my enemies when i make them my friends
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory
America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses
In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this
Let the people know the truth and the country will be safe
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality
Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion
The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him
The severest justice may not always be the best policy
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Wanting to work is so rare a want that it should be encouraged
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it
With malice towards none; with charity for all
Killing the dog does not cure the bite
He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel
The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
Bad promises are better broken than kept
Achievement has no color
This nation under God
My God My God! What will the country say
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back
Towering genius distains a beaten path
Knavery and flattery are blood relations
Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper
Never regret what you don’t write
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves
Avoid popularity if you would have peace
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can
I can make more generals, but horses cost money
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men
Whatever you are, be a good one
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have
A house divided against itself cannot stand
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old
Everybody likes a compliment
If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent
Public opinion in this country is everything
Some day I shall be President
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves
The ballot is stronger than the bullet
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was
Force is all conquering, but its victories are short lived
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed
As President I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help
Every man over forty is responsible for his face
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home
Only events and not a man’s exertions in his own behalf, can make a President
You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today
Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good
I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all
I can’t spare this man; he fights
If elected I shall be thankful if not, it will be all the same
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured
Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency
Important principles may and must be flexible
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward
No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced
Military glory the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood
Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause, honor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If he has a place and work for me and I think He has I believe I am ready
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income
It is easiest to be all things to all men, but it is not honest
To keep silent when we should protest, makes cowards of men
The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come
Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold
Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
Teach hope to all, despair to none
If you love something, set it free
You can’t fool all the people all the time
No man ever got lost on a straight road
You can’t trust every quote on the internet
Think of strangers as friends you not met yet
Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality
I want in all cases to do right
Every head should be cultivated
I was raised to farm work
I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank
Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg
Nothing will divert me from my purpose
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong
I am nothing, truth is everything
All I have learned, I learned from books
Too big to cry too young to laugh
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong
Writing is the great invention of the world
Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth
History is not history unless it is the truth
We cannot escape history
I walk slowly, but never backwards Always remember:
Life is for enjoying Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition
Reputation is like fine china Once broken it’s very hard to repair
The better angels of our nature
Labor is the true standard of value
I am always for the man who wishes to work
Work, work, work, is the main thing
I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend
Honor is better than honors
Be excellent and party on dudes
You cannot fail unless you quit
Anybody will do for you, but not for me
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head
It’s bad. It’s damned bad
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right
We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued
Anxiety beclouds the future
People are just as happy as they choose to be
Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money
Friendship is the start for what you call love
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be
My policy is to have no policy
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men
Most people are as happy as they want to be
The health you enjoy is largely your choice
Let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear
He who represents himself has a fool for a client
Never trust quotes on the internet Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life
You can’t help the poor by being one of them
Laws change; people die the land remains
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of Earth
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee
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 Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise Abraham Lincoln Quotes
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention
Hypocrite the man who murdered both his parents pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I am naturally anti slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office
I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace
If you don’t want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend
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. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift Abraham Lincoln Quotes
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet
One is a majority if he is right
You are as happy as you make up your mind to be
I have a congenital aversion to failure
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest
I think I stand where that man stands (Abraham Lincoln Quotes) A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man
I couldn’t be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn’t wear this one
Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive
No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the Earth Abraham Lincoln Quotes
This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the most heavily upon the soldier. Abraham Lincoln Quotes
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country’s cause. the highest merit, then, is due to the soldier
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have.
The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are
Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.
If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can’t eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum
I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion
Don’t judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother’s knees All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide
There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much
I am a Republican. I’m loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history
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