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Abraham Lincoln

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“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
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“The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”— 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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“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 do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow 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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“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”— 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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“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“To believe in the things you can see and touch in no belief at all- but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“The best way to predict the future is to create”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln