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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNIf there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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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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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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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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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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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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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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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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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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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 greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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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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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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