As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNCharacter is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Achievement has no color.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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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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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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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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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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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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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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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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