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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views


Abraham Lincoln

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PROVERB When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.
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In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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So shall a glory wreat...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, sh...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no nece...
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 A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay dow...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
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 ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everybody likes a compliment.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ...
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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