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" Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. "
Abraham Lincoln
Power
Character
Men
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" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "
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" It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence. "
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" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "
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Would
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Idea
" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "
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" The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. "
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Great
Men
Separation
" These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. "
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Power
Others
Men
" To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. "
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Peaceful
Only
Victory
" If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. "
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Prove
Skin
Living
" Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people. "
Abraham Lincoln
White
Best
Free
" A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. "
Abraham Lincoln
Justice
Right
Soldier
" It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. "
Abraham Lincoln
Laws
Lines
New
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Cannot
You
Fool
" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Egg
Only
New
" Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. "
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Rightful
Bullets
Ballots
" The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. "
Abraham Lincoln
Keep
Him
Best
" I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. "
Abraham Lincoln
Myself
Religion
Man
" You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. "
Abraham Lincoln
Today
Future
Tomorrow
" The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. "
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Women
Glory
Justice
" I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. "
Abraham Lincoln
Respect
Great
Handy
" Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Thoughts
Very
" Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. "
Abraham Lincoln
Would
Every
Live
" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "
Abraham Lincoln
Doing
Mean
Know
" I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. "
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Man
Him
See
" All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. "
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Drink
Blue
Africa
" I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. "
Abraham Lincoln
Fall
House
Will
" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "
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Nothing
Wonder
New
" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "
Abraham Lincoln
Believe
Free
Government
" Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. "
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Unhappy
Effort
Happy
" 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. "
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Equality
Liberty
Nation
" When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. "
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Fighting
See
Hear