"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
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Abraham Lincoln
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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
"Achievement has no color"
"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."
"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time."
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"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."