Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 4

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bullying, Kids, Evil

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• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Commitment, Reality, Promise

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• We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Constitution

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• Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, World, Impossible

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• To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Silence, Coward

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• The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lying, Home, People

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• Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, White Man, Long

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• 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, Taken

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Trying, Entitlement

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• I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Atheist, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Sweat, Injustice

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• I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Believe, Presidential

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• Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Responsibility, Men, Every Man

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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• Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Helping Others, Stronger, Helping

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• God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Silent, Partners, Enterprise

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Libertarian, Prosperity

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• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Illinois, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doing You, Ifs

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• Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, People, Looks

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sheep, Agreement, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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