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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive
“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.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #White #Long
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Life #Leadership
“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.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Leadership #God #Wisdom
“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.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Doubt #Evidence Of God #Evidence
“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.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Sheep #Civil War #Liberty
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Love #Inspirational #Life
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Friendship #Leadership
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Veterans Day #Liberty #Civil Rights
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Freedom #Men #People
“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Country #Veterans Day #Brother
“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 will be proud of him.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Life #4th Of July
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Character #People #Independence
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Positive #Religious
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Basketball #Peace
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Motivational #Faith #Prayer
“Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Enemy
“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Memories #Lying #Enemy
“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Equality #Men #Fairness
“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Military #Giving #Victory
“I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Wish #Slavery
“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Political #Together #Half
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Motivational #Leadership
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Friendship #Best Friend #Clever
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Courage #Successful
“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Kindness #Storm #Storms Of Life
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Funny #Life #Sarcastic

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