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#1

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

tags: adversity, character, power

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#3

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#4

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: secrecy

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#5

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

tags: entitlement, inherited-wealth

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#6

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: entitlement, self-reliance

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#7

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: self-reliance

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#8

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: constitution, freedom, liberty

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#9

“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: taxation

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#10

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust

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#11

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: benevolence, charity, generosity, hypocrisy, pets

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#12

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: cats, humor

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#13

“Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, prohibition

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#14

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#15

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

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#16

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: frienship, success

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#17

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: humor

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#18

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

tags: procrastination

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#19

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
― William Penn

tags: 1693, criticism, helping-others, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misquote, volunteerism

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#20

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

tags: freedom, liberty, slavery

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#21

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity

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#22

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: emnity, understanding-others

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#23

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: definitions, tact, wit

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#24

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: planning, preparation

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#25

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln

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