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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln in ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Abraham Lincoln in AMBIGUITY
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln in AMBITION
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Abraham Lincoln in BROTHERHOOD
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. Capital has its rights, which a
Abraham Lincoln in CAPITALISM
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but li
Abraham Lincoln in CAUSES
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out al
Abraham Lincoln in CHARACTER
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
Abraham Lincoln in CHARITY
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln in COMMUNICATION
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and e
Abraham Lincoln in CONFLICT
What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln in CONSERVATIVES
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
Abraham Lincoln in CONTROL
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln in CONTROL
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
Abraham Lincoln in CRIME AND CRIMINALS
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to p
Abraham Lincoln in CRISIS
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not g
Abraham Lincoln in CRITICS AND CRITICISM
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln in CRITICS AND CRITICISM
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
Abraham Lincoln in DANGER
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the
Abraham Lincoln in DECEIT
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln in DETERMINATION
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
Abraham Lincoln in DUTY
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 may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears
Abraham Lincoln in EDUCATION
If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
Abraham Lincoln in ELECTIONS
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln in ENJOYMENT
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Abraham Lincoln in EXPERIENCE
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln in FREEDOM
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us 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 in FREEDOM
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln in FREEDOM
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln in FREEDOM
''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highro
Abraham Lincoln in FRIENDSHIP
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