" 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)

" To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. "

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

" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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

" Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. "

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

" Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. "

Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. "

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

" It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. "

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

" The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. "

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

" The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. "

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

" 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 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them. "

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

" Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. "

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

" …and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "

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

" If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. "

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

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