"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on Deceit
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"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."

Lincoln, Abraham on Deception
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on Democracy
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on Democracy
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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

Lincoln, Abraham on Determination
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on Dogs
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"I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on Dreams
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"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty."

Lincoln, Abraham on Duty
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."

Lincoln, Abraham on Education
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"If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same."

Lincoln, Abraham on Elections
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on Enemies
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"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

Lincoln, Abraham on Enjoyment
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"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

Lincoln, Abraham on Enthusiasm
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"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

Lincoln, Abraham on Excellence
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"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."

Lincoln, Abraham on Experience
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"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

Lincoln, Abraham on Faces
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Lincoln, Abraham on Faces
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on Failure
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it."

Lincoln, Abraham on Faith
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"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother."

Lincoln, Abraham on Family
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

Lincoln, Abraham on Fear
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on Feelings
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"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

Lincoln, Abraham on Fights and Fighting
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on Fools and Foolishness
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"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on Freedom
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"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."

Lincoln, Abraham on Freedom
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

Lincoln, Abraham on Freedom
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"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on Freedom
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"Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."

Lincoln, Abraham on Freedom
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"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."

Lincoln, Abraham on Friends and Friendship
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on Friends and Friendship
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"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."

Lincoln, Abraham on Friends and Friendship
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on Friends and Friendship
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on The future
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"Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."

Lincoln, Abraham on Generals
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path."

Lincoln, Abraham on Genius
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

Lincoln, Abraham on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Lincoln, Abraham on Ambiguity
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"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham on Ambiguity
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"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition."

Lincoln, Abraham on Ambition
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