Abraham Lincoln

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"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."	Happiness
"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
"Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them."	Wisdom
"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."	God, Presidency
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."	Knowledge, Men, Time
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."	Responsibility
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	Death, Destruction, Freedom
"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
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."	Education, Love, School
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name-liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names-liberty and tyranny."	Economics, Liberty
"If this is tea, please bring me some coffee... but if this is coffee, please bring me some tea."	Success, Insults
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally."	Argument, Conflict, Strength
"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."	Honesty, Knowledge, Lies
"With the catching end the pleasures of the chase."	Miscellaneous
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."	Life
"The best way to predict your future is to create it!"	Love
"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
"What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?"	Success, Insults
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"	Miscellaneous
"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."	Death, Fear, Humor
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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
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Responsibility	School	Sin
Strength	Stupidity	Success
Teaching	Time	Truth
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