A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln Quote

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln Quote

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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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 Quote

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Die when I may, I want it said 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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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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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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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The Almighty has his own purposes.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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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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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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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.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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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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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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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.
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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.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
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