Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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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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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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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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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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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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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 don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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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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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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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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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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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.