Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

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  Invasion, Internals, Dies

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

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  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

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  Country, Money, Hands

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• Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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  Determination, Men, Ordinary

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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  You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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  Remember

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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

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• Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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  Leadership, God, Wisdom

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

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  Freedom, Humility, Heart

  "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

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• It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

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  Sin, Silent, Duty

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• You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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  Character, People, Independence

  Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Twilight

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Politics

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

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• I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

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  Sides, Praying, Boast

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• A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

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  Helping

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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  Freedom, Want, Ought

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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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• Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

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  Encouraging, Uplifting, Healing

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.191, Wildside Press LLC

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• When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

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  Behind You, Turns, Persons

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