Abraham Lincoln

(68 votes)   The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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(67 votes)   Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(67 votes)   Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(66 votes)   Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(66 votes)   Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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(66 votes)   I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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(66 votes)   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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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(66 votes)   Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

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(64 votes)   But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(63 votes)   Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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(63 votes)   As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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(62 votes)   If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(62 votes)   It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''

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(61 votes)   If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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(61 votes)   Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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