Abraham Lincoln

(172 votes)   I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(168 votes)   Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(166 votes)   Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(160 votes)   The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(153 votes)   Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(149 votes)   If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(143 votes)   Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(143 votes)   With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(135 votes)   Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(135 votes)   If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(133 votes)   Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(129 votes)   Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(129 votes)   You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(123 votes)   Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln
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(118 votes)   I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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