That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Abraham Lincoln
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About Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Abraham LincolnMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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 one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most…
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or e…
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.