Abraham Lincoln

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"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."	Happiness, Joy
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."	Destruction, Friends
"The best way to predict your future is to create it!"	Love
"The best way to predict your future is to create it!"	Friendship, Dreams
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."	Art, Friends, Life
"The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar."	Economics, Liberty
"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
"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 shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."	Fear
"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
"There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration."	Government
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."	Government, Effort
"Too many piglets not enough tits."	God, Stupidity
"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
"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."	Experience
"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."	Happiness
"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
"What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?"	Success, Insults
"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
"Whatever you are, be a good one."	Evil
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Ambition	America	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
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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