Abraham Lincoln
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“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’” -Abraham Lincoln
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” -Abraham Lincoln
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“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Lets 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
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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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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.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” -Abraham Lincoln
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