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16th U S President Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
Abraham Lincoln
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
Abraham Lincoln
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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure with him it has been one of splendid success.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
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Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.
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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
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Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.
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Adversity does not make us frail it only shows us how frail we are.
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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle
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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?
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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
Abraham Lincoln
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