Abraham Lincoln Quotes

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

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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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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

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My policy is to have no policy.

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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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