Abraham Lincoln

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."	Economics, Democracy
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."	Life
"All true wisdom is found on T-shirts."	Wisdom
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."	Success
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"	Destruction, Friends
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."	America
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."	Life, Time
"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."	God, Presidency
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."	Doubt
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Reading
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Anti-God, Books
"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
"Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them."	Wisdom
"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
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the 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, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."	Art, Birth, Death
"Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?"	America
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."	Comedy, Help
"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."	Men
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Ambition	America	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
Attitude	Birth	Books
Change	Character	Comedy
Confidence	Conflict	Death
Democracy	Desires	Destruction
Difficulty	Doubt	Dreams
Economics	Education	Effort
Equality	Evil	Experience
Failure	Faith	Fear
Freedom	Friends	Friendship
God	Government	Habits
Happiness	Help	History
Honesty	Humor	Insults
Joy	Knowledge	Laughter
Law	Laws	Liberty
Lies	Life	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Patriotism	Power	Prayer
Presidency	Quotations	Reading
Responsibility	School	Sin
Strength	Stupidity	Success
Teaching	Time	Truth
Violence	Virtue	Wants
War	Wisdom