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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 Lincoln"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Abraham Lincoln"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
Abraham Lincoln"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln"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 Lincoln"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
Abraham Lincoln"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
Abraham Lincoln"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Abraham Lincoln"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Abraham Lincoln"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln"Sir, 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 Lincoln"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
Abraham Lincoln"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 Lincoln"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
Abraham Lincoln"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Abraham Lincoln"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
Abraham Lincoln"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 Lincoln"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
Abraham Lincoln"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
Abraham Lincoln"I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?"
Abraham Lincoln"Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it."
Abraham Lincoln"It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence."
Abraham Lincoln"Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."
Abraham Lincoln"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
Abraham Lincoln"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln"True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety."
Abraham Lincoln"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
Abraham Lincoln"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
Abraham Lincoln"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
Abraham Lincoln"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
Abraham Lincoln"I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow."
Abraham Lincoln"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say."
Abraham Lincoln"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
Abraham Lincoln"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'"
Abraham Lincoln"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."
Abraham Lincoln"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Abraham Lincoln"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 Lincoln"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln"The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied."
Abraham Lincoln"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
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