Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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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 to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

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The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

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You cannot fail unless you quit.

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