America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThose who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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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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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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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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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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