Abraham Lincoln

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"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
"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
"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."	Experience
"When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."	Friendship
"When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."	Government, Friends
"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
"Love lasts when the relationship comes first."	Love
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."	Quotations
"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
"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."	Men
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Reading
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Anti-God, Books
"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 But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."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
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"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
"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
"Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"	Government
"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
"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
"I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army."	Military
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