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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Topic: Adversity
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Topic: Cause
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Topic: Character
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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.
Topic: Charity
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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Topic: Christianity
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We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Topic: Christianity
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
Topic: Citizenship
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Topic: Confidence
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Topic: Constitution
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Topic: Control
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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Topic: Criticism
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Topic: Deceit
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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Topic: Democracy
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Topic: Democracy
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Topic: Dogs
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Topic: Encouragement
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Topic: Experience
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Topic: Experience
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
Topic: Feelings
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Topic: Flattery
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Topic: Fools
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Topic: Force
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Topic: Freedom
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Topic: Friendship
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Topic: Future
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
Topic: God
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Topic: Government
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Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.
Topic: Greed
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Topic: History
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Topic: History
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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.
Topic: History
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Topic: Ideas
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Topic: Justice
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Topic: Law
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln.
Topic: Love
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Topic: Melancholy
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Topic: Mother
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In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Topic: Opinion
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over
this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of
our nature.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: in his first inaugural address
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Topic: Please title this page. (mercy.html)
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Topic: Popularity
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Topic: Procrastination
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Topic: Progress
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Topic: Property
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
Topic: Providence
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