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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI 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.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
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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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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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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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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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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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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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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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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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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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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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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