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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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

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Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

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I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

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The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

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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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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

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