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Abraham Lincoln

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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"