Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Taken Quotes, Men Quotes

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

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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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Too many piglets not enough tits.

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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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

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Life is hard but so very beautiful

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

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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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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

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