Abraham Lincoln

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"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."	Wisdom
"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."	Reading
"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
"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
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"	Destruction, Friends
"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
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."	Miscellaneous
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."	Anti-God, Attitude
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."	Experience, Virtue
"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."	Comedy, Help
"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
"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
"What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way."	Economics, History
"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
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."	Evil, Government, Men
"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
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."	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
"I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORD'S side."	God
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Attitude	Birth	Books
Change	Character	Comedy
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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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