“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, and beer.” ― Abraham Lincoln

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

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

― Abraham Lincoln

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“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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

― Abraham Lincoln

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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy520 likesLike

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: benevolence, charity, dogs, generosity, hypocrisy, pets444 likesLike

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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

― Abraham Lincoln

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“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: stubbornness, willful-ignorance395 likesLike

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

― Abraham Lincoln

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“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attractiveness, beauty, humor, life, people350 likesLike

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: 1862, bereavement, grieving, inspirational, letter-to-fanny-mccullough, mourning, sorrow343 likesLike

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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

― Abraham Lincoln

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

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: entitlement, self-reliance326 likesLike

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“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, and beer.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: faith, self-worth, serenity272 likesLike

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

― Abraham Lincoln

tags: failure, perseverance268 likesLike

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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