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“It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
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“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
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“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.”
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
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“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
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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 don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
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“Achievement has no color”
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“Fourscore 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, The Gettysburg Address
“As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
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“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
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“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”
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“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
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“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
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“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
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“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
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“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
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“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
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“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
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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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“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”
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“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
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“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
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“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
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“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
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“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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that 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, The Gettysburg Address