Quotes 121 till 140 of 264.
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond -
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007) -
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
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If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
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If there is anything that a man can do and do it well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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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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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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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
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Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
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In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862 -
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864 -
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Speech Chicago, december 1856 -
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
First Inaugural Address (1861)
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