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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

«A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.»
«Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.»
«The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use»
«Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest»
«If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on»
«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. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.»
«The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle»
«I fear explanations explanatory of things explained»
«Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men»
«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.»