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1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3. You cannot help small men up by tearing big men down. 4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 5. You cannot lift the wage-earner up by pulling the wage-payer down. 6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. 7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 8. You cannot establish sound social security on borrowed money. 9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a mans initiative and independence. 10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
Friends and Friendship
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Government
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A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
Unity
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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolvedI do not expect the house to fallbut I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Abraham Lincoln
Law and Lawyers
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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
Abraham Lincoln
Public
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
Fear
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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Family
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
Prayer
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln
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Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purposeand you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose. If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, I see no probability of the British invading us but he will say to you be silent; I see it, if you dont. The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.
Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Resolution
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
Friends and Friendship
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
Voting
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Life and Living
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow fromso must it be with a government.
Abraham Lincoln
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
Action
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
Popularity
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Control
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Fools and Foolishness
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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
Abraham Lincoln
Victory
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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
Soldier
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Character
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
Commonplace
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Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully.
Abraham Lincoln
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln
Determination
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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
Death and Dying
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom
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Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -
Abraham Lincoln
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln
Worry
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Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
Ambition
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Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
Faces
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Abraham Lincoln
Appearance
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Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln
Compliments
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Abraham Lincoln
History and Historians
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Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. Weeven we herehold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the freehonorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Posterity
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
Peace
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
Abraham Lincoln
Providence
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Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to himBlondin, stand up a little straighterBlondin, stoop a little morego a little fasterlean a little more to the northlean a little more to the south? No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safe over. The Government are carrying an immense weight. Untold treasures are in their hands. They are doing the very best they can. Dont badger them. Keep silence, and well get you safe across.
Abraham Lincoln
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
Abraham Lincoln
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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
Abraham Lincoln
Respectability
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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Communication
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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
Abraham Lincoln
Crime and Criminals
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He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big to cry.
Abraham Lincoln
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln
Feeling
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
Politicians and Politics
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Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same causehonor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle.
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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
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I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
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I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth
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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state.
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I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.
Abraham Lincoln
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
Abraham Lincoln
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln
Alcohol and Alcoholism
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
Abraham Lincoln
Horse
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
Friends and Friendship
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
Abraham Lincoln
Danger
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I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
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I do the very best I know howthe very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
Ancestry
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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln
Friends and Friendship
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
Self-improvement
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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Dream
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Abraham Lincoln
Ambiguity
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
Choice
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
Marriage
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so
Abraham Lincoln
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I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the western country, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and its development has scarcely commenced. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundred of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that waits for them in the West. Tell the miners from me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability; because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation, and we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the treasury of the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORDS side.
Abraham Lincoln
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I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If he has a place and work for meand I think He hasI believe I am ready.
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I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
Abraham Lincoln
Tears
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln
Excellence
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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, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
Crisis
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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruinedthat he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nationthey will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us.
Abraham Lincoln
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
Progress
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
Action
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
Preparation
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