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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
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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.
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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 up to what light I have.
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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
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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 dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.
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