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Abraham Lincoln

58 quotes

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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 LincolnCreativity
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham LincolnSuccess
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnSuccess
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Abraham LincolnSelf-belief
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Abraham LincolnLove
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham LincolnHappiness
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
Abraham LincolnCourage
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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham LincolnAction
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham LincolnAction
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham LincolnCreativity
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham LincolnFaith
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham LincolnCreativity
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham LincolnAction
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnCreativity
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham LincolnCreativity
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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.
Abraham LincolnFreedom
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnJustice
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham LincolnAction
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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 LincolnJustice
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnResilience
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham LincolnMindset
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham LincolnJustice
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham LincolnPatience
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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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.
Abraham LincolnFriendship
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham LincolnFailure
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham LincolnFaith
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham LincolnFriendship
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I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
Abraham LincolnLife
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham LincolnTime
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham LincolnCreativity
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnJustice
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham LincolnFreedom
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham LincolnFaith
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnFaith
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Abraham LincolnFaith
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham LincolnFriendship
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham LincolnLife
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham LincolnFreedom
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Abraham LincolnCreativity
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When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
Abraham LincolnFaith
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham LincolnFreedom
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnFreedom
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnMindset
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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I have in irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
Abraham LincolnLife
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnMindset
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham LincolnWisdom
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Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
Abraham LincolnTime
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Abraham LincolnFreedom
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Abraham LincolnWisdom