Abraham Lincoln quotes - page 21

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. (Abraham Lincoln)
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government. View quote
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. View quote
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. View quote
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. View quote
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. View quote
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. View quote
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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. View quote
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. View quote
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. View quote
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I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion. (Abraham Lincoln)
One is a majority if he is right. View quote
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I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. View quote
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. View quote
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... peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for ... View quote
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. View quote
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from so must it be with a government. View quote
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. View quote
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. View quote
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. View quote
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40. (Abraham Lincoln)
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. View quote
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. View quote
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her. View quote
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. View quote
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