The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNBe with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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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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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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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 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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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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