Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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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 up to what light I have.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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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.
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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
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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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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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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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.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen – I am concerned that you arise.
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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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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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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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.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln