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Patriotic Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...
- Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best…
- When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and…
- Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that…
- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new…
- Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- 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…
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
- If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have… — Douglas Adams
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams
- Fear is the foundation of most governments. — John Adams
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams