Abraham Lincoln

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."	Time
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."	Prayer
"The best way to predict your future is to create it!"	Friendship, Dreams
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."	Government, Effort
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."	Doubt
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."	Life, Time
"Love lasts when the relationship comes first."	Friendship, Dreams
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."	Comedy, Honesty
"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."	Patriotism
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."	Success
"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."	Ability, Failure, Lies
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."	Adversity, Character, Desires
"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."	Economics, Democracy
"Whatever you are, be a good one."	Evil
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."	Destruction, Friends
"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
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."	Happiness, Joy
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."	Art, Friends, Life
"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
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Ability	Adversity	Age
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