All Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln in
History
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln in
Government
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln in
Success
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