Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

"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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"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."
Abraham Lincoln
"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
Abraham Lincoln
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
Abraham Lincoln
"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
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Abraham Lincoln
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance."
Abraham Lincoln
"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."
Abraham Lincoln
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
Abraham Lincoln
"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
"True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety."
Abraham Lincoln
"If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
Abraham Lincoln
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
Abraham Lincoln
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
Abraham Lincoln
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