Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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