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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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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 laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
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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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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.
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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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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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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 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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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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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 will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Achievement has no color.
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