American - President | February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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