Abraham Lincoln

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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"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
"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
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"	Miscellaneous
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"	Destruction, Friends
"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
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."	Destruction, Friends
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."	Art, Friends, Life
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."	Miscellaneous
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."	Knowledge, Men, Time
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."	Happiness, Joy
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."	Life
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."	Life, Time
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."	Experience, Virtue
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."	Adversity, Character, Desires
"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."	Reading
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"	America
"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
"I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruined-that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nation-they will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us."	America
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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
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