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Results of search for Author: Abraham Lincoln - Page 5 of 11 Showing results 41 to 50 of 109 total quotations found.
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I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 1867
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We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speech on the sub-Treasury, December 26, 1839
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Congressional Record, April 15, 1942
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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), First Inaugural Adress, march 4, 1861
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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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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