Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 5

• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

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  Trust, Illinois, People

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

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• If you love something, set it free.

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  Love, Modern Family, Getting Back Together

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• If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

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  Doing You, Ifs

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• Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

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  Kindness, Long, Storm

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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  Sheep, Agreement, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

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  Strong, Men, Weak Man

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• You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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  Helping, Poor, Help The Poor

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

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  Bible, God, Religious

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.542, Wildside Press LLC

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

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

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  Life, Strong, Freedom

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• Honor is better than honors.

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  Business, Integrity, Honor

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

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  Men, Leaving, Civil War

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

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• There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

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  Photography, Looks, Faces

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• A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

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  Children, Moving, School

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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  Honesty, Memories, Liars

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• Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Men, Every Man

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• We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

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  War, Party, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1338, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No man ever got lost on a straight road.

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  Men, Lost

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• 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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  Struggle, Two, Toil

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

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• I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.

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  Loyalty, Country, Father

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• Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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  Weed, Sweet, Marijuana

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• If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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  Presidential, Civil War, Slavery

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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