Sayings by Abraham Lincoln

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that ‘a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.’ So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

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

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Abraham Lincoln