Lincoln on Expectations

"If you look for the bad in peopleexpecting to find it, you surely will."

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Lincoln on Becoming Wiser

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

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Lincoln on The Obvious

"For those who like this sort of thing,
this is the sort of thing they like."

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Lincoln on Welfare

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they could and should do for themselves."

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Lincoln on Being Remembered

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow."

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Lincoln on Preparation

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and
I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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Lincoln on the Constitution

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained,
for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

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Lincoln on Aging

"Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old."

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Lincoln on Books

"Books serve to show a man that
those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all."

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Lincoln on Women

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of
that I know will not hurt me."

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Lincoln on Doing What's Right

"Let us have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it."

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Lincoln on How to Fight

"Beware of rashness, but with
energy and sleepless vigilance go
forward and give us victories."

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Lincoln On Self-Destruction

"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

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Lincoln On Stickin'

"It is not best to swap horses
while crossing the river."

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Lincoln on Principles

"Important principles may,
and must, be inflexible."

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Lincoln On Being Right

"I shall try to correct errors when shown
to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so
fast as they shall appear to be true views."

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