Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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