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" Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. "
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing
Succeed
Fail
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" If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. "
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World
Soul
Standing
" Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "
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Perish
Shall
Earth
" By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? "
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Nation
Principle
Right
" A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. "
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Man
Fruit
Day
" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "
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Best
Looking
People
" When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. "
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Saying
Way
Slavery
" When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Himself
He
" We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. "
Abraham Lincoln
Decisions
Own
Think
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Time
Chance
Equal
" Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. "
Abraham Lincoln
Must
May
Principles
" How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. "
Abraham Lincoln
You
Dog
Saying
" Everybody likes a compliment. "
Abraham Lincoln
Compliment
Likes
Everybody
" Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Flag
American Flag
Stand
" 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
" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "
Abraham Lincoln
Believe
Free
Government
" It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. "
Abraham Lincoln
Labor
Others
Without
" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "
Abraham Lincoln
Generation
Down
Honor
" I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. "
Abraham Lincoln
Day
Best
Policy
" 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Work
Slavery
Lion
" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "
Abraham Lincoln
Wearing
Would
Funny
" Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. "
Abraham Lincoln
Single
Will
Agreement
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Great
Men
Separation
" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "
Abraham Lincoln
Case
Conflict
Dollar
" We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Take
Noble
Give
" We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. "
Abraham Lincoln
Constitution
Who
People
" Knavery and flattery are blood relations. "
Abraham Lincoln
Flattery
Relations
Blood
" If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Better
Where
Know
" That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. "
Abraham Lincoln
Truth
Religion
I Am
" Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. "
Abraham Lincoln
Thought
Opinions
Better