The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNElections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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Die when I may, 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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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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