Top 100 famous Abraham Lincoln quotes compilation,a collection of Abraham Lincoln quotes
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Win, True, While No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Some day I shall be President. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Slavery, Strong, Anyone Everybody likes a compliment. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Public opinion in this country is everything. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Power, Men, Character In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Life, Count, End Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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 I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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 I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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 Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Everybody likes a compliment. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed Escape, Today, Cannot All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Education, Government, Philosophy Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ― Abraham Lincoln quotes
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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 Constitution. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. – Abraham Lincoln quotes
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln quotes