Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

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“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time‘.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– 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

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“We shall sooner have the bird by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“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.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“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.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“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.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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