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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Everybody likes compliment.
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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
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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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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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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.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
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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.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
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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.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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