Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
Abraham Lincoln
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Abraham Lincoln
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln