Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Abraham Lincoln
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am rather inclined to silence.
Abraham Lincoln
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
Abraham Lincoln
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
Abraham Lincoln
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham Lincoln