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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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