Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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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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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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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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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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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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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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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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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 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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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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 eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.