Abraham Lincoln quotes
"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
"What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
"The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"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."