Abraham Lincoln

(113 votes)   Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(111 votes)   Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(111 votes)   To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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(104 votes)   We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(101 votes)   ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' 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.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(101 votes)   A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(99 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. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(99 votes)   Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(97 votes)   I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(96 votes)   Whatever you are, be a good one.

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(93 votes)   All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

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(92 votes)   In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(89 votes)   I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(87 votes)   A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(87 votes)   Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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