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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

«Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual manners for the public good»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: public good
«These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib»
«When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government - that is despotism»
«To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: enmity
«A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.»
«charity toward all.»
«Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, ... even during a bloody Civil War.»
«Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: exclusively
«There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.»
«He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.»