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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Man

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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

Abraham Lincoln

First

Will

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

Enemies

Friends

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

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