Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

American statesman

Lived from: 1809 - 1865

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 february 1809 Died: 15 april 1865

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  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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  • Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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  • Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
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  • Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
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  • Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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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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  • Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
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  • Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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  • Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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  • Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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  • Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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  • Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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  • That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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  • That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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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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  • The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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  • The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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  • The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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  • The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
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  • The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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