Abraham Lincoln

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"If this is tea, please bring me some coffee... but if this is coffee, please bring me some tea."	Success, Insults
"If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country."	Quotations
"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
"In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?"	God, Presidency
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."	Experience, Virtue
"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
"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."	Economics, Laws
"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."	Success, Law
"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."	Faith
"Love lasts when the relationship comes first."	Love
"Love lasts when the relationship comes first."	Friendship, Dreams
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."	Wisdom
"Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"	Government
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."	Education, Love, School
"My friends-... I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."	God, Presidency
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."	Adversity, Character, Desires
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."	Comedy, Honesty
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."	Evil, Government, Men
"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?-now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."	Friendship
"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?-now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."	Government, Friends
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