Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 2

• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Honesty, Humor

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• A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Generations, Election

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• If you have never failed you have never lived.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Short Inspirational Life, Ifs

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• Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Giving, Society, Capable

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• You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

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

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• Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Health, Discipline, Want

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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• If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Principles, Links, Divine

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sides, Praying, Boast

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Want, Ought

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• Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kindness, Storm, Storms Of Life

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• I walk slowly, but never backwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Autism, Walks, Backwards

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• Violence begins where knowledge ends.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Violence, Ends

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• When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fool, Opponents, Arguing

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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Education, Philosophy

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• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strength, Hope, Peace

  Speech in House of Representatives, 12 Jan. 1848

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• Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Integrity, Character, Commitment

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  I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Book, Believe

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

  Abraham Lincoln

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• Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Born, Copies

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