In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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