Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 10

• Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

  Abraham Lincoln

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Betrayal, Keeping Promises

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

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  Friendship, Heart, Winning

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.83, Library of America

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• Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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  Education, Teaching, Mean

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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• The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Men, Goal

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• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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  Time, Men, Political

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

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  Animal, Doe, Animal Rights

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• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

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  Democracies Have, People, Voting

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• Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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  Peace, Humor, Vaccines

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• Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Stranger, Mets

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• I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Cutting, Opportunity

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• Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

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  Rights, Conflict, Humans

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• May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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  Wise, Hands, Justice

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.51, Wildside Press LLC

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• I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

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  Struggle, Government, Life Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.635, Library of America

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• I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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  War, Work, Believe

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.176, Fordham Univ Press

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• Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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  Motivational, Civil War, Charity

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

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  Attitude, Stay Positive, Our Words

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• Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

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  Trust In God, Guile, Respectability

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.733, Modern Library

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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

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  Jealousy, Men, Helping

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.119, Library of America

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• I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Two, Southern

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• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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  Sea, Government, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

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  Country, Cheer, Prayer

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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