Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
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"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
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"Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong."
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"“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”"
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"“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”"
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"All I have learned, I learned from books."
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"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
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"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."
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
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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."
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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"The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied."
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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."
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"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
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"Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
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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."
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in."
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