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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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.
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.