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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
«If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it. . .»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg? The answer is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«Resolve to be honest at all events: and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«Something in [the] Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«Let's bomb so we can go home.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
«I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.»