Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
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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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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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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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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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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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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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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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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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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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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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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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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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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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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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.