1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln – [Enthusiasm]
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln – [Thoughts and Thinking]
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln – [Common Sense]
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln – [Slavery]
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
Abraham Lincoln – [Prohibition]
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Abraham Lincoln – [Will and Will Power]
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
Abraham Lincoln – [Hope]
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
Abraham Lincoln – [Charity]
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln – [Laughter]
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln – [Deception]
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln – [Responsibility]
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln – [Persuasion]
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