Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Two Quotes

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

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I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

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We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

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You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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