Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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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 not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham Lincoln
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
Abraham Lincoln
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Abraham Lincoln
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln