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"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal." So with men...  
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.  
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.  
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower whereve...   Nature
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.  
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more import...   Success
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?  
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and los...  
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the li...  
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the rig...  
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses ...  
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.  
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.  
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.  
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and re...  
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't v...  
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is w...  
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason th...  
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always...  
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever ...  
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be mainta...  
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or...  
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.  
Everybody likes a compliment.  
For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they ...  
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this contin...   Equality
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four ...  
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not per...  
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.  
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any...  
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.  
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions poss...  
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.  
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Callin...  
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be de...  
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to su...  
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.  
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the bet...  
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at t...  
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.  
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yester...  
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to kee...  
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know ...  
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.  
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice...  
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming convicti...  
I must run the machine as I find it.  
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and ev...  
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They ...  
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked ...  
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.  
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.  
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglec...  
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me...  
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?  
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can ne...  
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give...   Business
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, pleas...  
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we co...  
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a...  
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely wil...  
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.  
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life ...  
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few v...  
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's...  
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wr...  
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.  
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let h...  
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to t...  
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.  
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.  
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be see...  
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are c...  
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's ch...   Business
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.  
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's conse...   Government
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kitte...  
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty ...  
Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of t...  
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.  
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing th...  
Public opinion in this country is everything.  
Some day I shall be President.  
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in an...  
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right...  
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability...  
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.  
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use...  
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.  
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.  
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.  
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.  
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could ...  
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The...   History
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist ...  
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many o...  
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philos...  
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us...  
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep than...  
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'...  
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep h...  
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "...  
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you...  
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece...  
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those w...  
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit...  
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.  
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots...  
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.  
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unex...  
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or sy...  
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect...   History
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.  
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts...  
What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried a...  
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.  
Whatever you are, be a good one.  
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my ...  
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my reli...  
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting...  
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run...  
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to...  
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the ri...  
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succe...  
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather t...  
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people a...  
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.  
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and ...  
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather wa...