Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNBooks serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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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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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
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