Abraham Lincoln

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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."	Confidence, Time
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	Death, Destruction, Freedom
"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."	Reading, Sin
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."	Education, Love, School
"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."	Failure, Lies
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."	Death, Fear, Humor
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."	Change, Knowledge, Men
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away."	Change, Government, Honesty
"Whatever you are, be a good one."	Evil
"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."	Age, Art, Habits
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."	Success
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally."	Argument, Conflict, Strength
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."	Doubt
"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."	Honesty, Knowledge, Lies
"Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems"	Men, Monarchy
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."	Evil, Government, Men
"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."	Destruction, Monarchy, Money
"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."	Men
"With the catching end the pleasures of the chase."	Miscellaneous
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