1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln – [Character]
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln – [Commonplace]
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln – [Determination]
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln – [Death and Dying]
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln – [Freedom]
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. –
Abraham Lincoln – [Worry]
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln – [Worry]
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln – [Ambition]
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln – [Faces]
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Abraham Lincoln – [Appearance]
Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln – [Compliments]
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Abraham Lincoln – [History and Historians]
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln – [Posterity]
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln – [Peace]
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln – [Liberty]
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln – [Freedom]
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln – [Freedom]
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
Abraham Lincoln – [Providence]
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln – [Humankind]
Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
Abraham Lincoln – [Respectability]
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