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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.


Abraham Lincoln

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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