Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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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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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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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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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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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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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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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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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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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.