" It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" With malice toward none, with charity for all, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in, …to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. "

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other. "

Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" 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 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Whatever you are, be a good one. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens. "

Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all… Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better… And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. "

Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

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