Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Public Opinion Quotes

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

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If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

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If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

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We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

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We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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