Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Enemy Quotes

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

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I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

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Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

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If you have never failed you have never lived.

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