Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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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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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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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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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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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 do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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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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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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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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Achievement has no color.
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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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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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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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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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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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