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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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

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

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

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. 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.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Everybody likes a compliment.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Some day I shall be President.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

Never regret what you don't write.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

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