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Abraham Lincoln Quotes Page 2Page: 1 2 Abraham Lincoln's quotes are as tall as the man himself is. Abraham Lincoln was estimated to be 6’ 4” tall. His amazing love and concerned thoughts for preserving the union were extraordinary. If you have never stopped by the (West Potomac Park) Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C., you have missed a wonderful attraction. These Abraham Lincoln quotes should be required reading. These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Some day I shall be President.
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