Abraham Lincoln Short Quotes

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

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What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

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I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.

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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

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[Laughter is] the joyous, beautiful, universal ever-green of life.

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God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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All persons held as slaves … are, and henceforward shall be, free.

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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