Abraham Lincoln quotes - page 10

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. (Abraham Lincoln)
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. View quote
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world. View quote
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! View quote
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. View quote
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. View quote
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. View quote
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. View quote
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. View quote
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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. View quote
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All I have learned, I learned from books. (Abraham Lincoln)
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side. View quote
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Achievement has no color. View quote
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. View quote
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded. View quote
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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't. View quote
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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. View quote
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. View quote
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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. View quote
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. View quote
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Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself. (Abraham Lincoln)
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. View quote
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. View quote
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