If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to away, it’s best to let him run.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopy new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

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.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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.

Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.

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