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" 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
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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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Man
" Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. "
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First
Will
Down
" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "
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New
Think
Rise
" Some day I shall be President. "
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Day
Shall
Some
" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "
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Art
Always
Greatest
" Everybody likes a compliment. "
Abraham Lincoln
Compliment
Likes
Everybody
" It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "
Abraham Lincoln
Been
Virtues
Vices
" Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. "
Abraham Lincoln
Place
Men
Loving
" When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. "
Abraham Lincoln
Him
Trying
You
" I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. "
Abraham Lincoln
Think
Quiet
New
" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. "
Abraham Lincoln
Try
Well
Answer
" We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "
Abraham Lincoln
God
People
Government
" Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. "
Abraham Lincoln
Would
Every
Live
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Power
Others
Men
" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "
Abraham Lincoln
Ballot
Stronger
Than
" I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. "
Abraham Lincoln
Mother's Day
Life
Me
" 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, to bind up the nation's wounds. "
Abraham Lincoln
Finish
Charity
See
" If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Like
Hearing
Reading
" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Yesterday
Wiser
" Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. "
Abraham Lincoln
Rightful
Bullets
Ballots
" Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. "
Abraham Lincoln
Day
Man
Infinite
" I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. "
Abraham Lincoln
Day
Best
Policy
" 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
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Him
See
" Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Understand
Duty
End
" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing
Wonder
New
" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "
Abraham Lincoln
Best
Looking
People
" I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. "
Abraham Lincoln
Forward
Stand
Hope
" Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. "
Abraham Lincoln
House
Down
Build
" We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?' "
Abraham Lincoln
Us
Imagine
Succeed