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

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

Abraham Lincoln
Coffee, Food, Book
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Change, Views
Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Government, Individuality
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.252, Jazzybee Verlag

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, War, Humor

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Purpose
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln
Hope, Country, Wrecks
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Fall, Drinking
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.88, Library of America

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Abraham Lincoln
Prayer, Atheism, Decree
"The World's Sages, Thinkers and Reformers". Book by D. M. Bennett, 1876.

[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

Abraham Lincoln
Party, Government, Hands
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.124, e-artnow sro

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Genius, Path
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.41, Penguin

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Abraham Lincoln
America, Labor, Fleece

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Abraham Lincoln
Silent, Partners, Enterprise

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Civil War, Trouble

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, War, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.623, Library of America

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Abraham Lincoln
Self, Grace, Unbroken
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Abraham Lincoln
Political, Together, Half
Abraham Lincoln's letter to George Robertson of Lexington, Kentucky (August 15, 1855), later published in "Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860" by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, 1909.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Call Of Duty, Good War

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Men, Best Christian
"The Watchtower" magazine, 1992.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

Abraham Lincoln
Looks, Appearance, Responsible

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

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Horse, Men
Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Abraham Lincoln
Enemy, Way, Best Way

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Thinking, Giving

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

Abraham Lincoln
Children, Fate, Hands

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Abraham Lincoln
Anxiety, Anticipation
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.449, Jazzybee Verlag