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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, Christian, Book

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln
Fighting, Enemy, Way

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Honesty, Important
Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, May, Invention

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Abraham Lincoln
Education, Teaching, Mean

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln
Law, Government, Justice
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

Abraham Lincoln
Beautiful, Heart, Men

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

Abraham Lincoln
Jobs, Men, Goal

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Believe, Climate

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln
Peace, Military, War

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance
The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July
Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

Abraham Lincoln
Kings, Lying, Men
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.359, Library of America

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Thinking, Office
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.382, Wildside Press LLC

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln
Relationship, Marriage, Cynical
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Abraham Lincoln
Mean, Thinking, Done
Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln
Family, Mothers Day, Thank You
Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Wise, Men
Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Abraham Lincoln
Religious, Mean, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

Abraham Lincoln
Democracies Have, People, Voting

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Veterans Day, Brother
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Wildside Press LLC

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Abraham Lincoln
Doubt, Evidence Of God, Instance
Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

Abraham Lincoln
Godly, Safety, Presidential