“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
Best“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Religion“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
Best“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.”
Equality“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Marriage“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Time“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.”
God“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Life“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Best“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
Future“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Friendship“I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
Best“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Government“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
Best“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Government“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Experience“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
Success“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
Peace“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
God“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
Politics“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Men“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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