Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Money Quotes, Political Quotes

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

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I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

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After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

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The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

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