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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular beliefresolve to be honest at all events and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer resolve to be honest...

Abraham Lincoln

honesty integrity law

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

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I care not for a mans religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

Religion animals compassion

In very truth he was the noblest work of godan honest man.

Abraham Lincoln

honesty character integrity

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Abraham Lincoln

marriage conflict wisdom

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

freedom justice liberty

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Abraham Lincoln

early life humility

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

silence public life wisdom

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

law government justice

I expect to maintain this contest until successful or till i die or am conquered or my term expires or congress or the country forsakes mea capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by...

Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance Knowledge reading

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

truth honesty human nature

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

mother faith prayers

Let us at all times remember that all american citizens are brothers of a common country and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

Abraham Lincoln

unity american citizens patriotism

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, 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...

Abraham Lincoln

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I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Abraham Lincoln

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or...

Abraham Lincoln

strength america power

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

responsibility future procrastination

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

truth poetry time

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance effort struggle

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy...

Abraham Lincoln

ambition esteem purpose

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

understanding empathy

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

marriage humor

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln

fairness equality justice

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Abraham Lincoln

government institutions liberty

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Abraham Lincoln

grammar humor

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

american Dreams hope

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Abraham Lincoln

honesty humor integrity

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

democracy peace politics

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Abraham Lincoln

law conflict ethics

Human action can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed.

Abraham Lincoln

human nature change philosophy

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

democracy peace politics

I am rather inclined to silence.

Abraham Lincoln

silence personality

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave...

Abraham Lincoln

slavery states rights

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

peace conflict resolution law

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Religion beliefs politics

I have never encouraged deceit and falsehood especially if you have got a bad memory is the worst enemy a fellow can have the fact is truth is your truest friend no matter what the circumstances are.

Abraham Lincoln

truth honesty memory

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Abraham Lincoln

slavery morality politics

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln

genius exploration innovation

In regard to this great book 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.

Abraham Lincoln

bible books faith

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Abraham Lincoln

temperance human nature vice

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Abraham Lincoln

people decisions democracy

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

preparation future opportunity

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of gods green earth.

Abraham Lincoln

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

public opinion influence Success

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln

charity justice peace

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

peace popularity wisdom

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

politics republicanism values

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Abraham Lincoln

slavery politics

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save...

Abraham Lincoln

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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...

Abraham Lincoln

women american women praise

I happen temporarily to occupy this big white house i am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my fathers child has.

Abraham Lincoln

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

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When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

morality ethics Religion

In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

Abraham Lincoln

law policy strategy

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

pride community

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

truth honesty human nature

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship trust wisdom

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will...

Abraham Lincoln

peace government war

I can make a general in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Abraham Lincoln

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