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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

«If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Appearance | Keywords: calling, horse, leg, legs, tail
«We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.»
«Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Freedom
«Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Action | Keywords: planted, plucked, weed
«Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.»
«He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan»
«Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Citizenship, History | Keywords: citizens
«I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the whole nation; for those of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: chooses
«No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.»
«I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world»