Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

"He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help."
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"He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help."
Abraham Lincoln
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln
"... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
Abraham Lincoln
"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views."
Abraham Lincoln
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
Abraham Lincoln
"Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
Abraham Lincoln
"I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays."
Abraham Lincoln
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration."
Abraham Lincoln
"If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully"
Abraham Lincoln
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation."
Abraham Lincoln
"I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
Abraham Lincoln
"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
Abraham Lincoln
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation."
Abraham Lincoln
"I'm a slow walker but I never walk back."
Abraham Lincoln
"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run."
Abraham Lincoln
"The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well."
Abraham Lincoln
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar"
Abraham Lincoln
"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln
"In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily."
Abraham Lincoln
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