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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln
Confidence, Respect, Honesty
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

Abraham Lincoln
Optimist

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

Abraham Lincoln
Weed, Sweet, Marijuana

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Abraham Lincoln
Taken, Men, Long
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

Honor is better than honors.

Abraham Lincoln
Business, Integrity, Honor

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

Abraham Lincoln
Justice, Politics, Study

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln
Love, Inspirational, Life

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Abraham Lincoln
Government, People, Political
Abraham Lincoln (1943). “Selected Writings and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln”

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Abraham Lincoln
Success, Political, Politics

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Wicked, Thank God
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

Abraham Lincoln
Dark, Clouds, Rome

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Abraham Lincoln
Character, Tree, Shadow
Abraham Lincoln, Anthony Gross (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Determination, Recovery
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.197, Library of America

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Office, Favors
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Abraham Lincoln
Friendship, Loss, Enemy
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.336, Library of America

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Friendship, Memories
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

Achievement has no color

Abraham Lincoln
Color, Racism, Achievement

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Believe, Struggle
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.

Abraham Lincoln
Loyalty, Country, Father

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, World, Made
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

Abraham Lincoln
Government, Might, Election
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Thinking, Race
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.499, Modern Library

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom, T Shirt, Shirts

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational Life, Remember, Life Is