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Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Time

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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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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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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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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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

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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.

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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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Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Friendship

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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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.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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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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More Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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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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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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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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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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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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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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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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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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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.

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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.

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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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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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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.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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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.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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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.

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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.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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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.

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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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.

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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.

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

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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