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Abraham Lincoln QUOTES

Abraham Lincoln QUOTES

161 " There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. "

― Abraham Lincoln

162 " My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. "

― Abraham Lincoln

163 " If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. "

― Abraham Lincoln

164 " Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals. "

― Abraham Lincoln

165 " I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. "

― Abraham Lincoln

166 " Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship. "

― Abraham Lincoln

167 " I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. "

― Abraham Lincoln

168 " I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. "

― Abraham Lincoln

169 " Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. "

― Abraham Lincoln

170 " You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak "

― Abraham Lincoln

171 " if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading "

― Abraham Lincoln

172 " I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not. "

― Abraham Lincoln

173 " [January] 26th. [1863] ...and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. "

― Abraham Lincoln , The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln

174 " From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide. "

― Abraham Lincoln

175 " We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. "

― Abraham Lincoln

176 " People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
[in review of a book] "

― Abraham Lincoln

177 " When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing. "

― Abraham Lincoln

178 " Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it... "

― Abraham Lincoln

179 " I never tire of reading Tom Paine. "

― Abraham Lincoln

180 " Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words. "

― Abraham Lincoln