To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Work: Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
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...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Work:
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Author: Ronald Reagan
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Work: Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks edited by Michael Burlingame
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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