“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.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
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“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
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“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
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“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
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“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
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“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”
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“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
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“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
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“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
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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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“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
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“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
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“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
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“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
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“Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
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“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
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“Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition”
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