Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"The best way to predict your future is to create it." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down." ~ Abraham Lincoln


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"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" ~ Abraham Lincoln


"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." ~ Abraham Lincoln


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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" ~ Abraham Lincoln


"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute." ~ Abraham Lincoln


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