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- 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 (1809 - 1865)
- What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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