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Friends Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
- We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of…
- I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because…
- When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to…
- President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should…
- A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first…
- My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon…
- Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after…
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- 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…
- The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
- The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends
More Friends Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams