With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right—as God gives us to see the right—let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
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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.
I have been driven many times to my knees, by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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