Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

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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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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

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

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

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

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God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

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Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

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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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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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