Abraham Lincoln Quotes and Sayings
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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
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“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”
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“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.”
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“I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.”
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“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
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“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
-- Abraham Lincoln