Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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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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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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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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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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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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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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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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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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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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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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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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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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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