Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty.
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We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
[People]
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
[Big]
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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We trust, Sir, that God is on our side. "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
[Glory]
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
[Jokes]
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
[Conservatism]
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
[Advertising]
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a 'drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
[Acceptance]
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