Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a 'drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
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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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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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My dream is 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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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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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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 strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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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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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
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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 can be engaged in.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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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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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends 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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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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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.
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
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Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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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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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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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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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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When I am 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 about him and what he is going to say.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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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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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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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.
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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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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
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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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I do not 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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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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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.
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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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