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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

16 Great Quotes From Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.