Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

- Abraham Lincoln

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow.

- Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

- Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

- Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Die when I may, 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

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.

- Abraham Lincoln

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

- Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

- Abraham Lincoln

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

- Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

- Abraham Lincoln

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

- Abraham Lincoln

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among human creatures. (attributed)

- Abraham Lincoln

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

- Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

- Abraham Lincoln

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When I'm 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 thinking about him and what he is going to say.

- Abraham Lincoln

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

- Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

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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

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

- Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

- Abraham Lincoln

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